confiscatory
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- adjective
- /ˈkɒnfɪskəˌtɔri/
- Specialized
- Notably, international trade was not substantially cut back, and there were no widespread calls for trade protectionism, for the imposition of wage and price controls, or for confiscatory taxes on the rich.
- confiscatory tax
- confiscatory tax policy
- confiscatory tax rate
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Watch on YouTubeTaxing rich people at high confiscatory rates has never worked in this country.
- Taxing rich people at high confiscatory rates has never worked in this country.
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Then, Progressivism, through confiscatory taxation and regulation, took something from everyone.
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The organization argued that the proposed fines were confiscatory and would harm small businesses.
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But if I were you, I'd prepare for those confiscatory taxes on your property.
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Taxing rich people at high confiscatory rates has never worked in this country.
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Today, the main instrument of confiscatory interventionism is taxation.
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Greed is just another justification for confiscatory taxes.
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A rate that was not reasonable was considered confiscatory and amounted to an unconstitutional taking of the utility's property without just compensation.
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I hope you realize that Professor Black's whole article was against the confiscatory tax suggestions made by Robert Samuelson, Paul Ryan, and Jonathan Cowan.
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Pro-forced-unionism politicians and Obama-stacked bureaucracies are strangling small businesses with confiscatory taxes and destructive laws.
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Idaho needs to completely reorganize its confiscatory income tax system, which subsidizes low-wage agriculture and the LDS Church.
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Morphology
confiscatory = confiscate (transparent) = confiscate + atory
Formed from the verb 'confiscate' with an adjective-forming suffix; the meaning 'relating to confiscation' is directly recoverable from the base.
Etymology
Confiscatory comes from the verb confiscate, which goes back to the Latin word fiscus, meaning the public 'treasury' or a money basket. You can see the same root in fiscal, and that's why something confiscatory means taking people's money or property by authority.