Laissez-faire liberals might denounce Friedman as not being liberal enough. He supported social welfare and a basic income because he recognized that the market

Laissez-faire liberals might denounce Friedman as not being liberal enough. He supported social welfare and a basic income because he recognized that the market failed in those arenas. He supported a progressive tax system as well. Suggesting any of those to today's classical liberal would cause them to froth at the mouth and denounce him as a socialist.