"Nothing's more pro-business than trying to eat away a tax that's confiscatory on business ."
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Emery said he would argue in a new state lawsuit that the city's new fees would be " confiscatory ."
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This in conjunction with the reported fire sale price, " implies confiscatory nationalization, " the UFG brokerage wrote in a note Friday.
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In the past, that would have alarmed U . K . stock investors, who associated the party with confiscatory taxes and high inflation.
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The Committee of Young Christians for Christian Civilization, for example, advocated scuttling the " confiscatory and anti-Christian " agrarian reform laws.
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Chief Justice Morrison Waite, in the majority, contended that fixing of rates was permissible but warned that confiscatory rates would constitute impermissible expropriation:
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The company argued that Garamendi's regulations were confiscatory, excessive and interfered with 20th Century's right to a fair rate of return.
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Warden complained that one of them, requiring Microsoft to divulge technical information on Windows to other software companies, was " confiscatory ."
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Some libertarians are in favor of confiscatory estate taxes on exactly these grounds : they see inherited wealth as affirmative action for the children of the rich.
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He intends to raise as much as $ 20 million by charging confiscatory rates for City Hall's finite marketable assets : vending locations and street signage.
