get real...
The cost of paying off the victims (if there ever was one) will be far less than the cost to even study the ridiculous possibility of sending up a rocket motor to boost the beast into a higher orbit...
Your thinking is a perfect example of why NASA is a failed organization...Endless studies designed to go nowhere.
Hell, they probably have a whole team evaluating E.P.'s Ideas concerning Lunacy Impactor Prevention (The EPILIP Program).
Speaking as one of the potential victims (as I live below the 28 degree inclination) I'll take my chances on the thing crashing into my home.