So I do not think society will collapse economically throughout the entire world at once & on a worldwide scale due to welfare
They want people to be tricked into working for them & a complete economic collapse would prevent that
I suspect if there is a complete economic collapse in one location and time and they lose free labor from taxpayer slaves at that location for a temporary time then they will restructure things so that they can continue to have the economy running to maintain slavery
Taxes do not pay for welfare but welfare is used as an excuse to collect taxes
They can simply print money to pay for welfare but they do not print money because printing money without taxes would not force people to be continually employed to own a houses the way property tax does because without taxes someone could buy a house then quit working
If they do not give any welfare then people on welfare will no longer believe taxes pay for welfare & stop fighting to protect the system
There is a dynamic equilibrium between enough welfare to create a warrior class to maintain the system of taxing employees and so much welfare that the economy collapses and everyone dies preventing further slave labor from tax paying employees
They value slave labor from tax paying employees so much I suspect there will be no big economic collapse & if there is one it will be local & temporary
I suspect allowing Trump to "win" the election is a means to prevent the collapse & maintain slavery