The minimum wage increases teenage and minority unemployment

You have so far proposed that minimum wages "destroy jobs" yet you have failed to give any reasons as to why it does so which I hope you can introduce in the next round so I will leave any rebuttal until such a point as I have something more substantial to rebut. My points however will be that this increases competitiveness which is a good thing and then I will look at the state's duty. So my first point then. What we see in society is that people actually need to fight to get a job which means those that want a job realise the importance things like good qualifications and gaining experience. This leads to a point where more people want these good qualifications and are more likely to get them because they are a necessity. Western society has become quite lax in that we don't have to work and we don't want to we are just going to live in an eternal playground. Not all people are like this and many in our society work very hard even with little qualifications but at least they know that they will get a wage that is deemed a liveable wage by their government and I will discuss this more in my second point. Those who are working hard already will still work hard in the future I don't think the minimum wage changes that at all it just gives them a suitable earning for the hard work they are doing. It also will not mean that those who are not working quite so hard at the moment will just be put off because of the competition. They are more likely to want to try for these jobs because they see how much of a necessity the job is and they know they will have the support of a minimum wage meaning if they get a job it will not be deemed completely pointless because they are unable to support themselves. On to my second point where I will discuss in more detail how this specifically affects teenagers and minorities in particular. The state has a duty of care towards it's citizens and it has a duty of care towards minorities and teens to make sure that the workplace is a place of equality whether that bee in terms of age, race, gender, sexual preference or disability. Minimum wage actually supports this because it creates a right, the right that people have to not be discriminated against through the wage that they earned. Even if there are some people out there that think "If these employers are going to have to pay us all equally they are going to want to ‘make the most of their money' so I won't apply" we see this as the lesser of two evils. The government either lets discrimination like this happen to the cost of the teens and minorities because they cannot support themselves on the pittance of a wage they get or they make sure that those who get a job are supported in that job even if it makes it harder to get a job which I have already shown can actually be a good thing. No system is perfect but taking away the minimum wage will just cause more harms than we already have. So to sum up I think more competition for a job is actually a good thing and because it is better to have more people unemployed an make sure that those in a job are properly supported than taking away this support this motion should be opposed.