I agree with your sentiment, certainly. My main point of contention would be that the government in the US (and the Anglosphere in general) is very much ok with

I agree with your sentiment, certainly. My main point of contention would be that the government in the US (and the Anglosphere in general) is very much ok with supporting and subsidizing suburbia. This comes in the form of zoning, federal funding for highways (where the bulk of the cost is in maintenance which will be causing local governments to go bankrupt in the future), government subsidies of oil, support for the auto industry, subsidizing environmental costs (i.e. you don't bear the cost for the destruction of the environment) you name it. There's no sidewalk lobby. Ya know?