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{{Issue
|thread=6711753
|post=13
|number=112
|author=Frigben
|editor=[[Sirocco]]
|date=?
|subject=Telemarketing
|category=Economic freedoms
|options=2
}}

==Issue==
A growing group of @@NAME@@'s citizens are battling for an end to unrequested solicitations from salesmen.

==Debate options==
# "This has to stop," says mild-mannered parent @@RANDOMNAME@@. "My family can't even have dinner without being interrupted at least five times by telemarketers or door-to-door salesmen! My privacy is being invaded! The government ought to ban all forms of unrequested solicitations from salespeople. The sanity of the populace is at stake here!"
# "This must be a joke," retorts insurance sales solicitor @@RANDOMNAME@@, in between cold calls. "Telemarketing and door-to-door sales are some of the most effective methods of increasing revenues. Banning them would be a huge blow to business, and put thousands of workers out of their jobs! Let's face the facts - @@NAME@@ needs an economy, and banning cold calls isn't the best of ways to improve it! One way you could improve it would be to, say, give us some government funds. For the sake of @@NAME@@, of course."

==Domestic impacts==
===Option 1===
It is believed that the first option decreases [[economic freedoms]].

===Option 2===
It is believed that the second option increases [[economic freedoms]].

==United Nations impact==
At present there are no [[United Nations]] [[resolution]]s that compliment or contradict this daily issue.

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