The list of things at the end of your comment are all basically drivers for GDP. Our economic policies seem to incentivize the construction of Kafkaesque dystopias. I just can't see how such a leviathan could ever be dismantled.
It’s a regressive-tax-funded white collar makework jobs program. JFC.
I think the Nation’s quote of him on the topic points out something that may be true, which is that he might have balked at doing it given how many people would be laid off (hundreds of thousands, surely) and what the optics of that would be, though I kinda doubt the quote itself.
But yeah, even if he’d been gung-ho behind it, it wasn’t happening.