mdd
Of course they don’t want to support learning – they never did. But the zchus of the Chazon Ish has enabled them to support it anyway for the last 65 years.
Those that feel they are able to do without the government’s already shrunken pittance will continue to learn. Those that feel they cannot will not. But the biggest losers in this deal will be the chilonim who have had the zchus of supporting torah all this time and now all they will have going for them is supporting the professors at hebrew university and the sports teams and arts and theaters and free abortions for the army.