[circlecity]

"I don’t understand the reasoning here. The entitlement state will wind down after monetary collapse? Why?"

Because it will be impossible then. Nobody will be willing to provide the "entitled" with goods or services in return for worthless government script.

[Tublecane]

Nobody will be willing? That’s what guns and jails are for. Tell me, did Germany emerge from its monetary disaster—worse than what we should expect, probably—with smaller or bigger government?