# Well-intentioned ideas that won't work in real life: green grocer liberalism **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 10, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-intentioned-ideas-that-wont-work-in-real-life-green-grocer-liberalism/624728 "2012-06-10T15:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 171
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-intentioned-ideas-that-wont-work-in-real-life-green-grocer-liberalism/624728/171 "2012-06-11T19:30:05Z")
> [@Farmer\_Jane](#): > > … I already said that people should have access to food. Even if it’s bad food, it’s still _food_. … Unless they’re paying for it with foodstamps, of course, > [@Food stamps; do you think one's purchases/taxes should be looked into?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-stamps-do-you-think-ones-purchases-taxes-should-be-looked-into/624625/202): > > It’s not a bad idea to institute a ban on some basic junk foods - cookies, chips, soda. … > > … Just because you can’t ban all junk food doesn’t mean you can’t ban the basics. Policy doesn’t have to be perfect to make it good policy. … Doesn’t even have to be good . . . or consistent. CMC fnord! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-intentioned-ideas-that-wont-work-in-real-life-green-grocer-liberalism/624728)._