Raising Minimum Wage Would Decrease USFG Spending

Premise I: Burden of Prove.Pro specifically said I had mentioned the Resolution being "Question A." Now he claims he was saying something different. Either-way, Pro is wrong. The Resolution is about whether Minimum Wage decreases USFG spending... Since Pro's case is that it does so by decreasing welfare on the grounds of it lowering poverty, he must answer how it effects those in poverty... This is because if he fails to prove it lowers poverty, the case he set up fails to stand.I should note that BOP is on Pro. He must provide offensive proof (as opposed to just defensive prove.)Argument I: Demographics of Minimum Wage.Pro says 35 million workers are earning less than $10.10 a year. This isn't true... The most reasonable estimate is CNN's 15 million... (1) Far less than half of Pro's claim. And since I've proven that someone working $7.65 an hour is still above poverty, Pro's case means little.Pro has done nothing to prove these people are poor, while I have given irrefutable evidence that they are, in fact, not in poverty. Most of my Arguments I case from the beginning was dropped last round... Arguments that make Pro's case here pointless. I will repeat those dropped cases again:- The average household income for Minimum Wage workers is $50,700+ a year. - 87% of those effected by Minimum Wage increases were not poor. - 56% lived in households earning more than twice the poverty rate.- Raising Minimum Wage would only affect 0.0043% of those on welfareSo long as Pro can't prove those 15 million earning $10.10 or less are poor, he loses this debate. To carry on my case, raising the MW to $10.10 would cost upwards of 1,000,000 jobs, according to the CBO... Most of whom weren't poor until after they become jobless (2). This 1,000,000 jobs lost is above the number of impoverished the CBO claims would be helped.Pro continues by misrepresenting my case to the point of lying. He says I claimed the average income of one minimum wage worker is $50,000+ a year (after having dropped the argument). I said the average HOUSEHOLD Income is $50,000, which is true (3). I need not explain why Pro's refutation here isn't compelling... A teenager earning Minimum Wage, with parents earning $20,000 a year each, would live in a house with a Household income of around $50,000. If anything, he proves my point that MW workers are above poverty, as the poverty rate for a worker is $11,770. If two parents worked at Pro's claimed income, they would be nearly $20,000 above their poverty rate, capable of raising 4 children with plenty of money left... Pro's own math is self-refuting if accepted as true.Pro's whole case seems to assume all MW workers are living alone... They are teenagers living with parents. That is how so many people can live on MW, with household incomes so high. Unless Pro wants to quantify what it takes to be poor, he has no case. My source for the rate of people effected by hikes being poor uses the poverty rate for determining poorness, as does the USFG when handing out most welfare. If we review the Demographics of Minimum Wage Workers even more, we find that 3/5th of the people Pro talks about are enrolled in shool (4). Only 22% of the people he references are in poverty, and the average worker's Household income is over 150% the poverty threshold for their family. Even among the group of MW workers out of High School, the average household income is STILL above $42,000 a year.Pro's case for the MW worker being poor, and in need of welfare, simply isn't true.[1] http://money.cnn.com...[2] https://www.cbo.gov...[3]http://www.forbes.com...[4] http://www.heritage.org...Argument II: Effects of Minimum Wage.Pro's numbers mean nothing. They ignore every law of academia... They don't account for variables and context, or any other force that impacts the stats. If Minimum Wage is increased in 2016, and then a new industry forms, hiring 10 million workers, Pro's method would claim the wage hike caused the employment increase... He MUST account for these variables, as my source did, to make his point adequate. His number don't even account for how many of those jobs where MW jobs...That being said, he claims his numbers show the MW leads to employment increases, with no signs of disemployment. However, only 57% of the hikes saw increases in the job market. This is far from "With no real evidence of minimum wage increases leading to unemployment." 57% of successes doesn't even count as a correlation, better yet causation. Especially since the job market increases just as often every year MW didn't increased. The only truth can be found by clearing out the clutter than corrupts one's numbers.To strengthen both this argument, and Argument I, even CNN reports that a review of studies show no indication that increasing Minimum Wage would decrease Poverty (5). They even claim that most wage gains where seen by higher earning workers, and not those in poverty. Another review of studies find the same results (6). Minimum Wage increases, correlating well with each argument I made (especially in Argument I) do not reduce poverty.Following a time-tested method of research, Holtz-Eakin find that a hike to $15 an hour would cost 6,600,000 jobs, or 3,800,000 million jobs at $12. FAR over the CBO's estimates (7).[5] http://www.cnn.com...[6] http://econlog.econlib.org...[7] http://americanactionforum.org...Argument III: Less USFG Income = More DebtRaising the Minimum Wage would cost nearly a million jobs, billions of dollars in hours, and billions in lost corporate income as less people can afford the higher prices. Pro can not throw out one benefit without weighing it against the harms.If Person A sees their income increase 20%, their productivity increase 15%, and prices increase 10%, but he loses 30% of his hours, he will see the following:Productivity decrease 19.5%.Income decrease 16%.Ability to buy things decrease 37%.The negative impacts of Minimum Wage would quickly negate Pro's benefits. Even the CBO claims that very little of the new revenue would be acquired by people who are legally impoverished. Based on the CBO's 1 million jobs lost, and Pro's MW income listed in Argument 1, over $17.7 billion would be lost a year. Despite how the CBO says impoverished families will earn $5 billion more before losses are included. This is a net loss of $12.7 billion.Using the numbers from Holtz-Eakin's study, over $115 billion would be lost in wages at $15 an hour.Pro says US businesses can keep their employees... This is completely wrong. Most MW establishments are licensed. Based on income v profits, the KFC I work for brings in at least $50,000 a year in profit, and we have 25 employees. An increase to the fabled $15 an hour would cost us nearly $280,000 a year, twice our profit rate. Franchisers can't afford to spend that kind of money each year. My sources have long since already shown that Pro's claim here is wrong.Seattle is seeing restaurants close at a high rate now, and many resturants are having to close at earlier hours, and reduce labour (8). This (primarily the closing early and reucing labour part) is exactly what I claimed... Reducing worker's hours to make up for costs, which decreases paychecks and productivity.[8] http://www.forbes.com...Conclusion:Increasing the Minimum Wage would cost far too many jobs, plummeting otherwise healthy Americans into unemployment and poverty. I have already shown that increasing the MW would not help the poor, and that, if anything, it would increase dependency on Welfare for millions as hours, and jobs, are cut.