I know I'm a little off subject but I lived in Florida up until 2003. There, I received solicitation phone calls every day. One (and sometimes two) day(s) per week I would receive 15 calls from solicitors. That is significantly more calls than I receive on the business line.

Needless to say, after dealing with several hundred solicitors, I developed the ability to hang up as soon as I detect a solicitor is on the line.

The bulk of the calls comes from Dial America which was literally located 5 minutes from my house in Port Richey. It's in the plaza on the corner of Ridge Rd and Little Rd. The rest of the calls came from something-something Marketing Research that was about 10 minutes from my house and is located about 5 minutes further south on Little Rd.

When I first moved to NY, there were no solicitation calls. Now, I get about 4 per day and most of them are from the same two call centers in Florida.

Fax solicitation is against the law because it requires ink and/or toner which incurs a recipient financial cost with each "ad". The same philosophy should be applied to solicitation calls because it requires our time and labor which is property and is more valuable than ink or toner:

"God hath given the world to men in common... Yet every man has a property in his own person. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his. ..."

—John Locke


This also happens to be why the founders considered income tax immoral. So do I.