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Policymakers should use funding mechanisms aligned with AARP’s Taxation Principles,

Any public-private partnerships must ensure full accountability to the public. 

Policymakers should enter into these arrangements only when they can: 

The following principles guide AARP’s efforts to further budgetary decisions that reflect the needs of all members of society. 

In general, consumer protection laws and regulations should not preempt the ability of lower levels of government to put in place stronger consumer protections.

Consumers should have access to the full range of legal remedies when they have been harmed (see also Private Enfor

Government agencies should collect and report data for groups that are discriminated against, while ensuring consumer choice and control over what data they provide.

Policymakers and the private sector should enact meaningful rules and standards to provide government oversight and consumer protection against nuisance telemarketing calls and telemarketing fraud.

Policymakers should ensure that telemarketing practices incorporate consumer protections. Telemarketers should: 

All telemarketing businesses and their agents that operate in a state should be required to be registered there.

The Federal Trade Commission should strengthen the Telemarketing Sales Rule.