EGAVE

confiscatory

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Using confiscation.
    At some point along the curve of tax rates, the rate changes qualitatively from contributory (the payer is duly pitching in) to confiscatory (the taxer is confiscating); the cutoff value between those categories depends on one's political philosophy.

Similar words

usurpative usurpatory freebooting caught stealing instealing antistuffing incriminatory pignorate antismuggling diversionistic

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and taxation taxes tax in rates legislation measures or

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