ALT Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent credited Elon Musk for adding to children’s investment accounts. More than $8 billion is already deposited. The accounts give kids a stake that compounds with the companies people buy from. Bernie Sanders treats that stake as the problem. His posts call rising valuations oligarchic greed and demand taxes and public funding that redirect it. A deposit into a child’s account is the same process at small scale. It is not cash taken from wages. It is a claim on firms that produce. Sanders’ wealth tax and higher wage floor do not create more of those deposits. They treat the capital as the residual the state can limit. Musk’s contribution raises the number of children who start with a stake. Sanders’ program raises the number of rules that treat the stake as the thing to stop.