Imagine a mortgage so big your children will pay it. That is the offer the powerful made to America this week: keep paying our corporate welfare, and we’ll give you a 50-year mortgage. A 30-year-old couple who bought their home today would keep paying that to age 80. Most of us won’t live that long.

That is also a mortgage paid 13 years past 67, retirement age. While most must pay into welfare, it is — like native-born citizenship — no longer a guarantee. This is not hyperbole; below are quotes from the president on both your tax-funded food insurance and your citizenship:

“[SNAP BENEFITS] will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up the government, which they can easily do, and not before.”

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship.”

To date, he has not threatened corporate welfare or the citizenship of anyone for being an Epstein client. Instead, in a time of knee-jerk executive orders, we witnessed not just the entirety of the Executive Branch but over half of the elected representatives fight to keep the files sealed.

This is not just government corruption. Tech CEOs have been quick to excuse their own influence operations through their media monopolies with technobabble about algorithms. When tech CEO Elon Musk temporarily removed the dampener monopolies placed on “Epstein” posts, we saw one influence operation paused. The wave of public pressure that followed also exposed the unfiltered truth: With free speech, Epstein’s clients — and their protectors — would be behind bars.

And we don’t need executive orders or radical legislation to see this future — we already have laws against conspiracy, trafficking and monopoly. Let’s use them.

Andrew Kemp is a 36-year-old LSU alumnus from Baton Rouge, LA.