11. The surviving spouse equivalent of a gay or lesbian partner gets whacked with confiscatory estate taxes. 12. One way of raising funds was taxes that were often confiscatory and inflicted much economic harm. 13. Controlled by trade unions, it favored nationalizing key industries and imposing confiscatory taxes on the wealthy. 14. Moreover, double taxation by several cantons is constitutionally prohibited, as is a confiscatory rate of taxation. 15. Suspension is a potential, and even a confiscatory potential, the termination of the franchise, is there. 16. They say they have already paid income taxes on all their assets and call the tax unfair and confiscatory . 17. Countries like Russia that have imposed confiscatory taxes or tolerated organized crime are fighting to keep their economies afloat. 18. The company responded that such a tax is a confiscatory imposition penalizing it for the success of the enterprise. 19. The company responds that such a tax is a confiscatory imposition penalizing it for the success of the enterprise. 20. Despite upholding the law, this Fourteenth Amendment protected even businesses affected with a public interest against confiscatory rate regulation.
