Fax Junk

you are correct, they do NOTHING!!!
However, you do have the legal right as well as the Congressional blessing to file suit against these fax broadcasters and those they fax on behalf of. Bring your faxes to court and claim between $500 and $1500 in damages.

The main federal agency charged with acting against junk faxes is the FCC, I was not familiar with the FTC's (in)action. The FCC is astoundingly indolent, even by govt standards. It was over 10 years after the junk fax law was passed before the FCC even filed a single action, and that was only after private parties had filed thousands and thousands of actions. Apparently the FTC is just as lazy and worthless as the FCC. Incidentally, the FCC has recently come under some flack for lying about their junk fax record, deliberately misstating number of actions, misstating number of complaints, and so forth.

I believe you can get something like a thousand dollars in punitive damages for each unsolicited fax...

The FTC does not handle junk faxes. That is the purview of the FCC, as the link to the junk fax complaint form in your article shows (it links to the FCC web site, not the FTC). FCC regularly cites and fines junk faxers (could they do more? Sure, but they are doing some).

The FTC has taken actions against several spammers. Try searching Lexis rather than agency press releases.

Sure government agencies are generally failures, and the actual facts will support that.... no need to resort to errors and sloppy research to support that conclusion.

Take matters into your own hands - save them up, $500 bucks a pop statutory damages under federal law

http://www.junkfaxes.org/federal_law.htm

http://www.junkfax.org/fax/basic_info/junk_fax_qa.htm

You really make yourself look bad by complaining about the wrong agency. Oh, and as for the FTC and spam, how would you propose a better solution to enforcement of spam. A lot of it comes from outside the US