I think it's smart that you don't trust politicians, but the fact of the matter is that the government does have that power already. & minimum wage & regulations were invented by the government because the rich sat on their fortune & exploited anything they could do to become richer & it was destroying the country. The rich didn't invent social security, minimum wage, the epa, the fda, etc. The government did. Sure many of them are corrupt, but I'd rather trust the government because their success depends entirely on the population, unlike the top 1%.