Friedman was not a conservative
He said it himself. Watch the video.
“I never characterize myself as a conservative economist. As I understand the English language, ‘conservative’ means conserving, keeping things as they are. I don’t want to keep things as they are. The true conservatives today are the people who are in favor of ever-bigger government. The people who call themselves liberals today–the New Dealers–they are the true conservatives because they want to keep going on the same path that we’re going on. I would like to dismantle that. I call myself a liberal, in the true sense of liberal, in the sense in which it means of and pertaining to freedom.”
Friedman also talks about special interests, and the pitfalls of the minimum wage.
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