It won’t take anyone off welfare. Companies aren’t going to eat the increases, so the price of everything increases while those making more than 15 per hour do not get a raise. It shrinks the middle class, and quickens the population into two classes, the rich and the poor. Killing the middle class has been a goal of the elite for a long time.
Except that it won't. Labor is such small component of what we buy. Even the restaurant business labor is not the biggest cost driver.