Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared at a Breitbart Forum, supposedly on economics, to announce that “Trump Accounts” for children would be expanded in the near future to many tens of millions of kids. These accounts, currently going to about 7 million children whose parents choose to enroll them, will soon be automatic-enrollment accounts, with parents having only to activate them to be eligible for up to $1000 from the government by the age of 18. The accounts are not open to just any use, however, by the families; they must be invested in the stock market!

What better demonstration of the power of individual freedom and initiative, than to give children bank accounts with government money, which must, compulsorily, be funneled into Wall Street? What better example of freedom of choice, than to be able to be drawn into a financial crash, and ruined, before the age of 18? How can one expect to equal President Trump’s own record of seven business bankruptcies, if you don’t experience bankruptcy early in life?