labor & talent
in a working free market you should be able to maintain your wealth with any one of the following: talent, hard work, or frugality. your wealth should evaporate if you have none of them. and increase if you have any two. and skyrocket if you have all three. i claim that under our current tax system a rich, lazy, no-talent, spend-thrift stays rich. whereas in a fair and just world they'd go broke. i'm sure i could prove that with examples out the wazoo. if i had the talent. or i wasn't so lazy. ;->