Some GOP officials are taking that directive quite seriously — to the point that they’re advancing a plan to scrap requirements for lunch breaks for child workers.

According to the local report, the proposal is being championed by Republican state Rep. Roger Wilder, who owns some smoothie franchises across the region, and who said many of his child employees want to work without lunch breaks.

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break,” he said. “These are young adults.”

For the record, the kids might very well be young, but they’re minors, not adults.

Source: Louisiana Republicans vote to end lunch breaks for child workers