Ted Cruz

None of us as a parent would do the homework for that kid.

That's not helping your child to do her homework for her.

What you want to do is teach her and help her master the skills, and the only way anyone has ever climbed the economic ladder, and this is what conservatives and free market conservatives get, is to pull yourself up one rung after the other, but their economic policies

that can accelerate that ascent and actually the two policies that i talked about the most in that very first op-ed as a senator i wrote were number one school choice and number two social security personal accounts the ability to accumulate assets in the stock market

And what is amazing is we accomplished both of those last year.

And it is transformational.

And so I think economic policy should focus on ownership and savings and investment.

And that's exactly what we've done.

That impact in terms of just changing the philosophy of kids.

By the way, financial literacy is another issue.

Look, a lot of kids don't know basic financial literacy.

A lot of schools don't teach it.

You'll now have a vehicle where you won't be discussing it in the abstract, where a teacher in third grade will be able to tell the kids, you know, okay, look at your Trump account.

Look at the growth and how much do the numbers change?

if you invest early.

And I think you're going to see kids saying, you know, Aunt Susie, instead of getting me this toy for Christmas,

Maybe you could give me $50 or $100 in my Trump account.

Not every kid will say that, but when they see the math and the power of, wow, if we invest, this can grow and expand, getting children to think like investors and to think like owners changes their whole worldview.

Look, there are life habits.

If you look at kids that learn delayed gratification.