It's perfectly tenable. The phone company can pick a list of broadly acceptable charities, but hell, it's fine with me if the phone company just keeps the mone

It's perfectly tenable. The phone company can pick a list of broadly acceptable charities, but hell, it's fine with me if the phone company just keeps the money. The main thing is that the caller pays. The phone company is not the arbiter, whoever receives the call is, and their decision is final. This shouldn't have any impact on low-income people unless they're calling a bunch of people who don't want to hear from them. There's no need for an appeals process, it's only $1, and it has to be reported within 10 minutes. The caller would receive a text message that they had been charged for the call, and either has to stop calling people who don't want to hear from them or pay for each call.