Govenment is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem. The private solutions are working. In my experience, spam is on the wane. This is just so much hype so that the government can stick it's nose into the tent and quite frankly I'd rather keep the stinky and greedy government out of my tent, thank you very much.
As bad as spammers are, the government is 1000-times worse.
And quite frankly, I'd like to keep the stinky greedy spams for porn, bogus MLM schemes, "phishing" and spoofing" out of my computer, thank you very much. Oh, you reply, there are programs for that. OK says I, I have purchased these programs, at my expense, which is a form of "Spam Tax" and the rogue IT's manage to find way around those. Spam IS being taxed, its the consumer that's paying the tax, not the spammer.