&gt; If you are an artist so good that your paintings are worth $1M each, should you get to have them? Or should someone walk in your door and say &quot;whoa there, you have too much now, we&#x27;re taking your paintings until you have the same amount of wealth as the $75k&#x2F;year guy&quot;?<p>If you paint million dollar paintings and leave them in your studio, I guarantee you the IRS will not knock on your door and say &quot;you have too many paintings now, we&#x27;re going to take them now&quot;.<p>If you <i>sell</i> those paintings, and make an <i>INCOME</i>, the IRS will expect you to pay <i>INCOME TAX</i>.<p>Seriously. How is the basic concept of taxes so hard to understand?