Those measures are in no way "confiscatory," as a recent critic claimed. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism and Catholic Economics Part One] Reference
Marginal tax rates on the affluent were "confiscatory" by today's standards, she said. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Novick: Why I'll Be Voting for Barack Obama] Reference
"Nobody's going to stand for the kind of confiscatory taxes you would need.". From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
Some will label this draconian or even confiscatory. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Terms Are Right Call] Reference
Reply: The problem is fiat currency + confiscatory inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Time to Hit Back Harder] Reference
If that were to happen, confiscatory death taxes would follow. From Wordnik.com. [Dissecting Limited Liability Corporations] Reference
This would explain the new round of confiscatory export taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Tax Rebellion in Argentina] Reference
Slavery is wrong and confiscatory taxes raise many of the same moral questions. From Wordnik.com. [Intangible Capital Built on Individual Rights, Property] Reference
It's not just "people with a lot of money" who oppose confiscatory estate taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Death and Whoopi's Taxes] Reference
The second issue is the uncanny resemblance between slavery and confiscatory taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Intangible Capital Built on Individual Rights, Property] Reference
We should take -- we should take these confiscatory death taxes that they call "estate taxes.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Sen. John McCain Makes Stump Speech, Answers Questions in California - March 1, 2000] Reference
Tax rates were not merely high; they were -- at 98% on some "unearned" income -- confiscatory. From Wordnik.com. [Never Wobbly] Reference
Does that mean the country is still center-right if we fail to restore confiscatory tax levels?. From Wordnik.com. [We’re Heading Left Once Again] Reference
They're not going to grow with the confiscatory, spread the wealth tax policies of Barack Obama. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2008] Reference
Nonetheless, plenty of other Frenchmen have moved abroad to escape their country's confiscatory taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Obama's Tax Rates] Reference
The problem is not taxes, it is fiat currency that robs the citizens of any gains by confiscatory inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Time to Hit Back Harder] Reference
The problem is fiat currency + confiscatory inflation by Drew Terry on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 1: 21: 32 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Time to Hit Back Harder] Reference
It would have to be replaced with a confiscatory sales tax that working people would have to pay the brunt of. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2004] Reference
The taxes paid by families in the top 1% amounted to 22% of their adjusted gross income, not a confiscatory rate. From Wordnik.com. [Tax Withholding Is Bad for Democracy] Reference
These bills will strangle family farms in red tape, and levy confiscatory fines, causing farmers to simply give up. From Wordnik.com. [Clintons promote their second Monsanto 'fake food safety' plan that destroys farmers] Reference
Fleischer would suggest this is a small, but inadequate step to curb the confiscatory redistribution of the tax code. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: Taxing Matters] Reference
The exception may be the confiscatory death tax that drives many of the superrich to form foundations to avoid the tax. From Wordnik.com. [The Charity Revolt] Reference
But even if he's being sincere, plenty of other Frenchmen have moved abroad to escape their country's confiscatory taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Obama's Tax Rates] Reference
The bold and enterprising can succeed big, or fail big, without fear of confiscatory taxes or hope of government bailouts. From Wordnik.com. [A New Land of Opportunity] Reference
Democrats in Congress, in the face of every economic lesson, want to push marginal tax rates back up to confiscatory levels. From Wordnik.com. [Does the World Still Need the Swiss?] Reference
Have you thought of what confiscatory "windfall profits" taxes on oil companies would do to exploration, supply and prices?. From Wordnik.com. [The Markets Are Weak Because the Candidates Are Lousy] Reference
To make a rate that does not yield a fair return results in confiscation, and confiscatory rates are of course unconstitutional. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Maybe we should start there, with confiscatory taxes that don't allow for much in the way of bribery, graft, and public relations. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Regulate. Confiscate.] Reference
You also want to raise dividend taxes to 39.5% and capital gains to 28%, plus you want to return to a confiscatory 55% "death tax.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama and Economic Opportunity] Reference
Today, America is confronted with a State far more dangerous to us and confiscatory on every level than any imagined by our founders. From Wordnik.com. [SMU Petitions: A referendum on the Bush Presidency?] Reference
Account has also to be taken of all kinds of risks, such as the prospect of not living to enjoy the future goods or of confiscatory taxation. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
A strike and its demands are usually praised as being law-abiding, or economically bearable, or are condemned as being unlawful, or confiscatory. From Wordnik.com. [An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker] Reference
If you've gotten it in the past, even if you've paid it back, I think there ought to be, for the near term, confiscatory tax rates on those bonuses. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2010] Reference
People there were incensed at a confiscatory handgun initiative on the ballot supported by Bradley liberals but vigorously opposed by Mr. Deukmejian. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Bradley Didn't Lose Because of Race] Reference
Yes, it may have been tax evasion, some argued, but the alternative -- given the country's complicated and confiscatory tax system -- was to go broke. From Wordnik.com. [The Russian Money Chase] Reference
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