Sep 26, 2013
Reduce the deficit and finance National Health Care by enforcing the fines against those that call Do Not Call Numbers and send spam faxes. Many numbers are assigned to corporations, businesses and individuals that illegally call do not call numbers. The maximum $10,000.00 fine for each call that illegally calls do not call numbers could be used to fund national health care and reduce the national deficit. The amount of calls I get to my entire “do not call numbers” coming from a variety of different numbers over the course of one week averages 10. That is $70,000.00 from one household alone. If you calculate the number of households in the U. S. and fines assessed to illegal calls and faxes the National Health Care can be funded plus the Federal Deficit can be reduced.
Telecommunications companies own specific ranges of numbers that are used internally or assigned to customers. Savvy customers have the numbers routed over vast distances, even overseas to make tracing difficult. Once a number is cited for fraudulent and illicit calls to do not call numbers and fax spam’s, the communications company that owns the number/s range should be required to shut the number/s down and not be able to re-assign them for 12 months.
By forcing the fines and requiring the owners of the number/s to shut down customers that use their numbers to make illegal and or fraudulent calls/faxes the calls will eventually stop. Until that time, fine them and use the revenue for national health care and deficit reduction.
Carla J Mattingly
Decatur Indiana