This is the problem with leftists like you. Your cognitive dissonance doesn't allow for you to see when things are connected and when they aren't. Welfare is a separate and equally stupid concept. But separate. Wheb you increase minimum wage, IN A PERFECT WORLD, your paycheck goes up, but all your bills go up an equal amount because of increased labor costs. So you don't lose, but you don't win, and neither does anyone else. The only people who win are the tax collectors. In an IMPERFECT WORLD like ours, people who didn't have an increase in cost will still take advantage of the wage increase to justify increase in costs for their products or services. Which means YOU LOSE and so does everyone else. Thats economics 10fucking1