Not everything is personal.  You personally may do what you say, but your party leadership is not introducing the bills needed.  It would be a fight, but they could do it and folks like me would support it in every way possible.  On the other hand, the $15 minimum wage type bills that the democratic leadership seem to favor will, IMHO, drastically reduce the standard of living in the US by robbing us of our competitiveness in the world market.