rapcious

On the one hand, he claims, with the rates as we have them, some impressionable college kid is going to turn into a rapcious doctor, no doubt in the plastic surgery line, operating on the wealthy and making money hand over fist.

Matthew Yglesias » The Case for More Tax Brackets 2009

Abstract, academic exercises that condemn a convenient target, be it “environmentalists”, the uncaring government bureaucracy, or even rapcious landowners and ivory tower libertarian academics who I pick on because someone has to do it on this site fall apart quickly when they become mired in the politics, complexities, nuances, compromises, and realities of the real world.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The ESA vs. Private Conservation: 2007