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Letter: What does the Do Not Call registry do?

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I completely agree with your editorial in the March 12th issue of the Gazette-Journal (“Worthless?”). Despite the Do Not Call registry, I get at least one junk phone call on my landline per day, and the overall number of junk calls has increased dramatically over the past five years.

But here are the real questions that perhaps Congressman Wittman should investigate:

1. What does the Do Not Call registry do all day? It’s certainly not doing anything to control junk and robo calls.

2. Why, after a citizen files a complaint on a junk call with the Do Not Call registry website, does that citizen get a repeat call from that same junk caller?

3. How many employees work for the Do Not Call registry?

4. How much do we, the taxpayers, pay annually for the implementation of the Do Not Call Registry service?

Given the way that government sometimes works, I would bet that the Do Not Call registry’s annual budget is in the tens of millions of...

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