Ted Cruz: “We're starting at age zero, we're starting at babies.”

“Look, if someone starts saving or investing when they're 60, it's hard for it to grow and accumulate enough to be really significant in by the time they retire. Yeah. What makes the Trump account so incredibly potent is We're starting at age zero, we're starting at babies. So you've got a time horizon where the kids of a single mom waiting table can accumulate hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. And so for philanthropy, the math is powerful.” (54:41–54:46)

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