Also apparently, so everyone is aware, we have attracted another rape gif troll.
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I flagged all their posts on this thread and emailed Kinja, hopefully they can be dealt with soon. :)

Rollos are the best thing in the universe COME AT ME

My thoughts exactly. Can't they then discount produce to make up for the increased junk food? If you can't afford to feed your family healthy meals, you're at least going to fill them up. This doesn't make it better. This makes lives harder.

Thank you for linking to the full text of the study.

The best conversations our daughter had with us took place in cars. Kids are apt to reveal a lot of what they feel and care about when parental eyes are trained on the road and not on the kid.

.In fact, the study found one key instance when parent time can be particularly harmful to children. That's when parents, mothers in particular, are stressed, sleep-deprived, guilty and anxious.

Well, given that the tax is being collected and administered by a fairly local government, I'm hoping that the money collected will be put to good use. I wouldn't trust Arizona or the national government to do something like this effectively but I am cautiously optimistic that the Navajo Nation actually understands…

Apparently American parents spend more time with their kids than any other parents in any other country.

It's so easy for people to be like... "Why are you getting X, Y, Z on food stamps?"

Oh hey, douchebags, you missed the blurb about "inexpensive processed" foods in their list. That probably means those 50 cent boxes of macaroni and cheese, dollar packs of ramen noodles, and boxes of instant mashed potatoes among…

Ten companies make most of the processed food in America - Kraft, Coca Cola, Pepsico, General Foods, Kellong's, Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble and Nestle.

You have a problem with how they make their processed food - AND YOU SHOULD

Your "solution" is to...tax the poor?

How about we regulate the big…

My dad died when I was nine. For a chunk of my childhood he had a job with a crappy commute. He got home right before my brother and I went to bed. So he did the bedtime routine. Long after I forgot what his conversational voice sounded like I could remember the voices he did when he read us bedtime stories. I also…

yea, I dunno why it was phrased that way. But it is Sunday, and nobody should have high expectations for anything done on a Sunday.

It's also about the fact that cheap, tasty, bad-for-you junk food may well be one of the few pleasures (and least bad ones at that) available for people dealing with the stress of poverty. It's a hell of a lot easier to make healthy choices that prioritize the long term when you're not having to constantly panic over…

I had to click on the post to see what it meant. Maybe it's a new trick to get us to click on the post :D. English is also my second language so maybe that's my problem.

So, I'm in the throes of a bad headache right now, but is anyone else having massive problems figuring out what the headline means? Is it just me....?

The tax puts a direct burden on consumers and not suppliers. You are right that this could possibly have an effect (depending on the elasticity of demand and the availability of alternatives) on supply, but there is no guarantee that it will and it is definitely not a tax targeting "the system."

cut taxes on healthy food,

Maybe we should look at the studies before toying with struggling people and their food budgets.

I have so many issues with the way this is reported.