Personally, I would really like to see the powers that be wake up to the fact that better public policy enriches everyone, profits are higher even while paying more taxes to support a system where EVERYONE prospers greatly than paying less taxes to support a system where the enrichment of the rich must happen in spite of falling standards of living for everyone else. Skimming off the top is so much easier when the whole is vital and growing quickly than when your national economy is unstable and sporadic in its. very best quarter.
And drawing a parallel with France is just plain myopia. But it's expected since most americans are stupid enuff to think "socialism" is a dirty (and apparently also widely misunderstood) word and "communism" is an epithet more likely to invoke thoughts of secret police and tyrant dictators than the underlying and infinitely more noble economic paradigm.
