Translations for „confiscatory“ in the German » English Dictionary

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confiscatory powers

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The government simply increases existing tax rates or may employ one-time confiscatory expropriations of wealth.

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We expect such confiscatory measures "for the common good" from socialist regimes.

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The fact that the marginal rates were what would today be viewed as essentially confiscatory did not cause economic cataclysm -- just the opposite.

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Confiscatory taxes for government provision of what families can deliver better make little sense.

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The reform was of confiscatory due to the fact that there was a number of restrictions in the exchange of banknotes.

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The council found that any tax rate above 66 per cent applied to individuals would be confiscatory.

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Third, this rising inequality must be reversed through confiscatory taxation before it destroys society.

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How wonderful would it be not having to give half or more of your earnings to government in the form of confiscatory taxes?

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For you, the state and its confiscatory powers have been a financial boon.

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Who, he asked, could impose such socialistic, confiscatory rates?

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