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Damage calculations are part of due process and should never consider "the poor taxpayers" for any purpose. Most or all plaintiffs are taxpayers, too.
by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Damage calculations are part of due process and should never consider "the poor taxpayers" for any purpose. Most or all plaintiffs are taxpayers, too.
- giantg2 4y agoOf course. The interesting part is how the damages are calculated to get to that number.
- newsclues 4y agoBut there is not justice to victims or society if the government is bankrupted by the judgement. Money doesn’t erase the harm.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoI don't think that judgments risk bankrupting the government, nor do I believe that bankrupting the government risks denying justice to the victims, or by extension, society. Remembering of course, that victims are the part of society that matters when a judgement is issued in their favor.
- newsclues 4y agoIf society crumbles who protects the victims? If debt to satisfy settlements, causes the currency to collapse, the settlements to the victims are useless.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoSounds like you are analyzing victim payouts in a vacuum. The society that would ostensibly crumble under the burden of victim settlements was already lost to government that victimized its members. Remember these are the terms the government set forth for itself, which it broke.