If she stuck to her job, the government would eventually also withdraw Medicaid and other benefits, lifting the effective tax rate on her earnings to a confiscatory 84 percent.
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Confiscatory tax policies have been used to drive out of business many of those who were beginning to compete with the state, like owners of small private restaurants called paladares.
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Attempts were made to dictate the growing of certain crops, notably fire-cured tobacco, to be sold at what villagers saw as confiscatory prices set by government agencies.
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This indecipherable formula basically means that people who don't rate a space will either pay a confiscatory amount of money to garage their cars or succumb to public transportation.
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He requested the people be protected from " brigandage, murder, abduction and rape of women and children, confiscatory taxes, and fraud and extortion by local officials ."
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By 1930 the silver coin shortage had become acute and the authorities scapegoated " hoarders " and " exchange speculators " as responsible for the shortages, and confiscatory measures were taken.
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The spring sun at mile-high altitiude soon did its work, and Jack and his buddy were able to sell their beer at the confiscatory price of a buck a bottle.
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Politicians aren't vocal about them, with the fringe exception of Pat Buchanan _ and Donald Trump, who last week announced a confiscatory tax plan for the super-rich.
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What was a revenue reallocation system and a tax system ( has ) evolved over the course of time into being a confiscatory tax system aimed singularly to operate as a cap on salaries.
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"Do we assume responsibility for our culture and our choices, or has government wrested that from us, paying for its power with confiscatory taxation ? " she asked sweetly.
