Ted Cruz

You're going to have an app and it's going to break down not just what's in your Trump account, but all of the 500 companies that are part of the S&P 500.

And that kid's going to say, gosh, I own 100 bucks of Apple or 75 bucks of Boeing or McDonald's.

And that kid now has a stake in.

in the economy, in those companies, in their employers, in seeing economic growth.

So instead of being, you know, an angry teenager going, all corporations are evil, which unfortunately some of these knuckleheads hear that propaganda from the college professors, they're going to be like, no, no, no, I want these companies to do better because when they do better, I do better.

And that is fundamentally...

an ownership society.

And I'll tell you, Ben, this is actually the culmination of what I set out to do when I got elected to the Senate.

So when I was first elected, the very first op-ed I ever wrote in the Senate in January of 2023, not 2020, in January of 2013 was called The Rise of Opportunity Conservatism.

And what it said is that

Every policy, every economic policy we look at should focus on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

Focus on opportunity.

And the basic philosophical difference between the left and right on economic policy is they both look at the socioeconomic ladder.

The left sees people on the bottom and they want to physically grab them and move them up.

And look, that's a noble instinct.

It just doesn't work.

It's a train wreck.

It fails.

And look, think about it in simple terms.

Let's say you have a five-year-old daughter who is struggling with her math homework.