MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle raised eyebrows Wednesday with a question she posed to Melinda Gates, asking if private philanthropy is enough or if the United States should revisit the idea of free-market capitalism. Gates, in response, reiterated that the U.S. needed a combination of private charity and government action. "Do we need to revisit capitalism, seeing that the disparity between the rich and the poor has become so exaggerated?" Gates maintained that while inequality shouldn't exist in the U.S., capitalism has remained the best economic system and should be tempered by taxes and regulation. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPRuhle, for her part, has been pushing the question over capitalism and socialism on Twitter.

Source: Fox News April 24, 2019 21:48 UTC