&gt; If the owners of capital assets whose worth increases over their lifetime hold them until death, their heirs pay zero capital gains taxes on them. Such “unrealized” gains now account for more than half the value of assets held by estates worth more than $100 million.<p>Those people also derived no benefit from their wealth. They  invested their wealth rather than spending any of it.<p>&gt; The new work requirements haven’t reduced the number or percentage of Americans in poverty. They’ve just moved poor people from being unemployed and impoverished to being employed and impoverished.<p>I don&#x27;t know enough about the Clinton welfare reforms to have an informed opinion but having a job makes it a great deal easier to get another job.<p>&gt; Six of today’s 10 wealthiest Americans are heirs to prominent fortunes.<p>So 40% of the 10 wealthiest Americans made their own money? That sounds like the mark of a dynamic economy.<p>There is an interesting discussion to be had about wealth, poverty, work and the relation between them. This article is not part of it.