How red (state) Is Marx?
It’s highly doubtful that an 80 percent global tax on the richest people, as proposed by Picketty, would much help these people. But efforts to support domestic industry; salvage and even rebuild once-thriving neighborhoods (not just in the counties outside Washington D.C.); support education and apprenticeship linked to local industry; heavily favor the formation of families through the tax code (and, as Reihan Salam has proposed, even punitively tax the childless); encourage the talented and ambitious not just to flock to trendy urban centers; cease subsidizing suburbia; stop advancing the sexual revolution through government policy; relentlessly root out crony capitalism, rent-seeking, and large-scale corporate reliance upon regulatory advantages; for starters at least, might actually start to help some of the working poor and even pinch the elite.