If you raise the price of cigarettes through taxes, less people buy cigs. Same for gambling, driving, flying, etc.
If you raise the price of labor through minimum wage, you fix poverty. Opposed to literally everything else plus evidence.
If you raise the price of labor through minimum wage, you fix poverty. Opposed to literally everything else plus evidence.
The key point is that wages are being kept artificially low by monopsonies. And the evidence supports this. (Current hyperlocal minimum wage laws make for good A/B-ish tests.)