system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Why can't the government create a program similar to the WPA during the Great Depression to provide thousands of jobs while getting long-needed construction projects done?

EDIT: thank you for all of your comments. A lot of you had fantastic explanations.
gpt
We totally could!  It would just require raising taxes (to pay for all those salaries) and increasing the size of government (adding all those new government jobs).  Those are both toxic political ideas right now.