So, how is that rebranding working out for you guys?

Stossel said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends that the “War on Poverty” only helped the nation’s poor for five years. After that, progress stopped because people — particularly women — learned to depend on government handouts, he explained.

“They taught women, ‘better not have a man in your house because you’ll get more money if there’s no guy there,’” Stossel remarked. “And so people adjusted their behavior. And now they want more handout — what didn’t work, the handouts — they want to do more of.”

“And my point is that you’re going to get income inequality when people are free,” he continued. “Some people will do much better than others, and that’s okay because under that system the poor do better too.”

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