"Taxpayers are spending a lot of money subsidizing not people who won't work, but industries that don't pay their workers a living wage" The hidden assumption

"Taxpayers are spending a lot of money subsidizing not people who won't work, but industries that don't pay their workers a living wage" The hidden assumption in that statement is that those industries would pay their workers more if they didn't have access to welfare. This is economically dubious; if anything, by substituting for income, welfare decreases demand for work and thus increases salaries. Without welfare, those workers would likely work longer hours for less hourly pay.