No. of Recommendations: 0
It is just math, after all. DOJ already agreed to the minimum payout per person. What is to be argued is the *additional* damages to one of the two groups that suffered *additional* injury.
Additional payout, Part 1:
1. DOJ stipulated the damages for disclosing IRS data to the public is $1.776B per person whose tax data was disclosed.
2. Per Congressional statement, the number of people who had their IRS data revealed to the public was over 405,000 in the same year Spankee's IRS data was revealed.
Therefore, the total minimum amount owed to those people = $1.776B x 405,000 = $719,280,000,000,000.00.
Additional payout, Part 2:
There are TWO groups of people within the 405,000 people cited by Congress.
Group 1 would be Public Figures, who have no reasonable expectation of privacy as a result of them *being* Public Figures. They do NOT have any additional injury as a result of them having their IRS information revealed.
Group 2 would be people who are *not* Public Figures. They DO have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Thus having their IRS filings revealed would cause them *additional* injury due to malfeasance and dereliction of duty by the IRS. Additional damages would be (arbitrarily) treble the amount of the original injury amount--which has already been established by the DOJ as $1.776B per person. Thus, total payment to a person who was NOT a Public Figure would be $1.77B plus 3 x $1.77B = $7.104B per person.
Arbitrarily, of the 405,000 people whose tax records were made public, we will state 105,000 of them were Public Figures. That would mean 390,000 people were NOT Public Figures.
Now, we can determine the total amount immediately due and payable.
Group 1, Public Figures: 105,000 x $1.776B = $186,480,000,000,000.00
Group 2, NOT Public Figures: 309,000 x $1.776B = $692,640,000,000,000.00
It is just money, so deficit finance all of it--by taxing the wealthy.
