Obamacare, increase in employee benefits, didn't shift to consumers it shifted costs to workers in the form of less hours.

Obviously nothing is cut and dry, there will be people who win and lose. Workers in economies or industries with low margins will certainly be reduced.

Thomas Sowell, the economist, was a staunch progressive before he joined the department of labor instituting minimum wage laws in Puerto Rico, what he saw was the complete opposite of what you described. In more modern day examples Seattle's minimum wage law has seemed to have a net zero effect at best--net zero in that it has helped some and hurt some.