Ezra Klein is the smartest person in the world. Just ask him. He will tell you all about it. A larger welfare state can mean a lower deficit — Ezra Klein/WaPo Speaking of things that the European crisis is not about, while I was in Germany, my colleague Robert Samuelson wrote that “Europe’s turmoil is … Continue reading WaPo Super Genius Ezra Klein Has Figured Out Why America Has a Deficit Crisis: We Have An “Insufficiently Large Welfare State”…