Why Don't We Give Americans What They Want?

What Americans want differs by income level.  Noah Smith tells what Americans want by income level and he tells us how to give them what they want.  The only problem is that our political system makes it difficult for us to do simple things.  Perhaps we should concentrate and doing what people want and push our politicians it directions that many of them will not take.  That leads to the next problem.  We need to push the right kind of people into running for office.  We also need a political party to put these things into their platform.