But going after rich policies could be an acceptable variation.
These voters also wanted better social services and fewer tax breaks for the rich, policies Democrats and independents like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been championing for years. .
But the "tax the rich" policies so far being discussed (at least the ones that leak out to the public) are laughably timid and tame, when you really examine the big picture.
Wall Streeters choose to believe they are the heart and soul of capitalism, and that Americans much prefer their kind of capitalism to socialism (as embodied in Sanders' soak the rich policies).
The absence of a painful trade-off between short-term development and long-term climate stabilization could provide policy-makers with a much richer policy option space than previously considered.
"Despite the usual dichotomy of "growth-enhancing pro-rich policy" and "growth-reducing pro-poor policy," pro-rich policies have failed to accelerate growth in the last three decades.
Compared to developed countries, where direct taxes account for the majority, the dominant part of general taxes are the indirect taxes in China, which is a pro-rich policy so that the better-off can transfer the tax burden to the poor: in 2010, the value-added tax (VAT), sales tax, and excise tax on specific goods such as alcohol, tobacco, gasoline accounted for 52.35% [ 45].
There is a clear need for a richer policy discourse and feedback on policy design (25).
For example, policies designed to promote sustainable agriculture can be undermined by other, typically richer, policy measures in support of highly erosive row crops such as groundnuts and tobacco, or by weak or slow-to-respond research and extension efforts.
