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You have it backwards. Minimum wage increases poverty by preventing people from finding work. These unemployed people are then put on welfare. You have admitted that jobs will be created if minimum wage is abolished, and then you say more people will be on welfare. You cannot make both claims. Your argument is logically incoherent. And the empirical evidence supports opponents of minimum wage.
You have to seem equated the fact someone has a job if we get rid of minimum wage to someone making a living wage so they don't have to go on welfare. One can actually make both claims that the previous poster made.