Telemarketing could probably be banned altogether, but I don't support doing that. I do support giving people an out.
The market is able to provide phone service without commercial calls. My cell phone company for example sued a commercial spammer who misused their network
You're assuming everyone wants to go wireless and not have a land line. Your solution here is to allow telemarketers to kill off another industry through their abusive behavior. Talk about entitlement,
But you want a cheaper land line service with the same feature that I pay more for. So you lobbied and had it given to you.
You want to allow a small group (call it 2.6 million) to force a much larger group of people (50+ million) to change their lives, or pay more money for their phone service, just so that smaller group can keep engaging in commercial activity that the much larger group does not want to be part of.
At the end of the day, the telemarketing industry has nobody but itself to blame for this. I'm not shedding any tears over them.
Neither am I. I am dismayed that we chose to solve a problem with Federal government regulation, when the primary problem was State regulations (supressing local phone competition). I chuckle at the rationalizations and leaps of logic that people on this forum make to justify the blatant abuse of Federal power.
But mostly I am dismayed that we have chosen to make the government larger and more powerful. The bureaucrats may decide that some political group is really commercial and fine them into oblivion for making calls at election time. That group might eventually prevail in court, but it will obviously be too late for them. That is just one possible bad consequence from a law like this. I guarantee there will be many more.