Answer: members of Congress, apparently. Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of millionaires. Some of my best friends are millionaires. And as a thousandaire, I hope one day to join their ranks. I don't begrudge members of Congress their millions. But one thing does concern me. According to the study cited in the linked article, "a significant number of members [of Congress] owned shares of major players in the health-care and financial-services sectors, which were the subject of major reform legislation during the period." In other words, we kind of have to trust that our millionaire legislators are playing fairly when they make the laws that govern the companies that issue the stocks that they own.

That wouldn't be a problem if we could trust members of Congress to be honest with our money. But it seems we can't.

What's the solution? Unfortunately, the only solution I can think of is for members of Congress to act according to a stricter (i.e., normal, to you and me) ethical code. It would be nice if we could be confident that our political leaders had earned their money honestly. All I know is that the next time someone in Congress gets high and mighty about corruption on Wall Street (which, for the record, I also oppose, no matter how controversial my anti-corruption stand is), I'll be thinking, "physician, heal thyself."