Unless the code has been changed since before the reset, the economic projects increase the raw resource usage at the same rate they increase the refined resource production.
Alliances can already impose a progressive tax system by refunding tax payments to smaller nations. Don't make the game do your alliance leaders' work for them.
81% of the top 1% of nations are on green.
The 99 Percent have "occupied" green as a "protest" to the domination of the 1% over the political process.
They forget, though, that they represent less than 2% of the "nations" of Orbis.
Their protest is ineffectual, though it seems to be drawing the attention of green alliances, at the very least.
It'd be very nice if alliance owners could customize the ranks entirely, with as many ranks as they choose, each with its own distribution of management powers selected from a checklist.