Comment by mattmaroon

Nobody is asking you to be sympathetic. But we must design ia system, and that system must be (and in fact is) rules based.

The comment to which I was responding was suggesting some mechanism other than the tax code to determine “the full amount”. What is that and why isn’t that just the tax code?

It’s because they’re just determining “the full amount” to be something that makes them feel a certain way which isn’t really a sound basis for law. The full amount is whatever the tax code legally obligates one to pay, no more, and to suggest we should expose people’s private data simply because we don’t like the tax code is preposterous.