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  • Confiscating all earnings over $250,000 in any year will only yield enough to meet one year's deficit.

    'Grand Bargains' Are a Budgetary Dead End Peter J. Wallison 2011

  • Confiscating assets and freezing bank accounts is the normal way to shake the bad habits of midlevel bureaucrats, but it requires slow-moving due-process procedures and long court hearings, fought every step of the way, by top defense lawyers.

    It’s Everywhere You Want to Be 2010

  • Confiscating assets and freezing bank accounts is the normal way to shake the bad habits of midlevel bureaucrats, but it requires slow-moving due-process procedures and long court hearings, fought every step of the way, by top defense lawyers.

    It’s Everywhere You Want to Be 2010

  • Confiscating these Iranian artifacts would create a dangerous precedent and open the United States up to retaliation in foreign courts.

    Trita Parsi: Obama and the Persian Treasures in Chicago 2009

  • Confiscating the fruit of their labor encourages further illegal immigration, a major strain on the U.S. welfare system, by creating demand for labor to pick a product that never reaches the U.S. marketplace.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Confiscating the shares in Hypo would probably mean that shareholders get little or no compensation.

    Germany Weighs Hypo Seizure 2009

  • Confiscating and looking at information on cell phones by school officials is still not clear.

    Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/17/2008 2008

  • Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said: Confiscating alcohol is just one part of our strategy to address the damage and disruption that underage drinking causes to youngsters, their families and the communities they live in.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Confiscating and looking at information on cell phones by school officials is still not clear.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Confiscating weapons is not enough to stop such a war.

    Warriors Of Red And White 2008

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