That would require people paying more taxes, and taxes are the handywork of Da Devil here, as you know being in France where there's a functioning news industry.  At best, you can get away with what Obama's will probably wind up doing if he's elected (basically a slightly steeper rise than what Bill Clinton pushed through): Raising taxes on capital gains and the higher income brackets, and lifting the FICA cap, while leaving working- and middle-class brackets alone.  (Right now he says he's going to cut the lower and middle brackets, but I doubt that's going to be affordable when we reach that junction, so it probably won't pass Congress.)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

Then there's

Crap Towns

which I guess has yet to take off in the US......

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky