12 year old Tyler from Texas: "End child labor laws so i can work with my dad!"

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Republicans could not care less when 20 children were massacred at Newtown, it is no surprise they would want to remove child labor laws.
 
The FLDS were using children in the field during harvest instead of having them in school as law required in Utah and Arizona.
 
For Republicans, it never went a way and no, I don't mean the sleazy Newt Gingrich saying poor children should clean toilets in schools.

This is all tied back to the koch's.

Republicans Bring Back Child Labor On Tobacco Farms In The South

Virginia GOP Halts Bill To Stop Child Labor On Tobacco Farms

Child Labor Is Disturbingly Common On Tobacco Farms In The US

Young Children Are Getting Sick Working on U.S. Tobacco Farms

I worked tobacco for years while I was growing up from the time I was big enough to walk. It never affected me or anyone in our family. Usually, the only sickness you got was because it was damned cold stripping the tobacco. As to the nicotine poisoning mentioned in the articles, I don't see how that happens if you wear gloves.
 

How is he going to go to school and have time to do his homework?

The same way that farm kids do!

Child labor was pretty bad at one time.

Well DUH! Thank you Captain Obvious!

Pretty obvious too that you never worked a farm as a kid!
 

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