The Big Beautiful Bill has a provision for “Trump Accounts” 

$1k to every new baby invested in the stock market on their behalf 

“Accountholders would only be approved to be spend investment funds on prescribed costs, such as a down payment on a home, education-related expenses, or starting a small business. Use of the funds to pay for unapproved expenses would subject accountholders to penalties.”

“Half of the funds could be withdrawn when a child turns 18, at which point the account's gains would be taxed at the long-term capital gains tax rate, so long as the money were spent as directed.”

Such optimism assuming it’s up only in perpetuity! 

Feels like a lot of these kids could use the cash today, although of course a lot of parents would abuse that

The Big Beautiful Bill has a provision for “Trump Accounts” 

$1k to every new baby invested in the stock market on their behalf 

“Accountholders would only be approved to be spend investment funds on prescribed costs, such as a down payment on a home, education-related expenses, or starting a small business. Use of the funds to pay for unapproved expenses would subject accountholders to penalties.”

“Half of the funds could be withdrawn when a child turns 18, at which point the account's gains would be taxed at the long-term capital gains tax rate, so long as the money were spent as directed.”

Such optimism assuming it’s up only in perpetuity! 

Feels like a lot of these kids could use the cash today, although of course a lot of parents would abuse that 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-accounts-for-newborns-1000-bill-cbs-explains/

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Sounds to me like they’re looking for an excuse to dump tax dollars into the stock market to make stocks go higher.

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There’s been a long term goal of replacing social security with this type of account, which is the worst idea ever. Intuitively, it seems like this may be a way to dip toes in the water/normalize/create precedence for the idea?

Hard for me to assess how much impact this will have. There’s a lot of money in the markets, not that many kids born all told. Sweet gig for the money manager for sure