I have a question for people that are against financially supporting kollel.
Let’s say you have a yungerman in a full-time kollel who can only sit still and learn for an hour or even half an hour. Are you not being mefarnes his Torah if you help support his kollel? Is a minimum amount of hours that a person has to be able to sit and learn in order to be worthy of being supported? Is there no reason in the world to help someone learn even an additional minute?
You’re looking at it as: this guy is wasting his time because he’s not suited for sitting and learning all day. But the reality is that every day this guy shows up to kollel even if he spends 7.5 hours a day in the coffee room, he is getting 30 more minutes of learning in than he would otherwise have been getting. And he is sitting protected in the koslei beis midrash instead of the pritzusdik shvakim (which he has less tavlin to combat against). There is nothing he could be doing that would be a greater fulfillment of his time for his neshamah and for all of Klal Yisroel and all darei malah u’matah during those few minutes.
Whether kollel-life is suitable for everyone as a long-term possibility or not or even whether it is something that is suitable for so many people to be doing, the fact is that those there are learning even a little bit more than they otherwise would have been. That’s always a good thing. (Unless there’s a mitzvah she’ee efshi al yedei acheirim, in which case its still better to learn but clearly the person wasn’t zocheh. See sefer Binyan Olam also chazer Sha’ar Daled).
Why would anyone b’shitah not want to support that?