confiscation

Gold, Bitcoin and paper cash are also subject to confiscation, tax or other legal controls, speculation and devaluation.

This isn't about confiscation, it's about tuning one parameter of our society to achieve a more optimal result.

BTW, the government/courts also perform criminal forfeitures, which might be what you're thinking of where a confiscation involves a named defendant.

Israeli oppression and annexation (confiscation) of West Bank territory breeds resentment and hatred among all Palestineans, though, and with good reason.

That is achieved through men with badges, confiscation of property, the disruption of travel, and the kind of inconvenience being written about here.

And crazies who think that Obama is a secret atheist muslim who is fighting a secret war of confiscation and redistribution against America.

Debt repudiation, confiscation and war are other possible outcomes.

Chinese growth depends on cheap money, which in turn relies on forcing people not to charge a risk premium for the percieved confiscation and rule-of-law risks in China.

For harder drugs police aren't meant to do that, but stories I've heard you're still more likely to get confiscation and possibly a caution.

How can you claim that the federal government's confiscation of up to 45% of your wealth upon your death isn't just slightly under halfway there when it comes to Marx's goal?

Also an interesting tidbit in the bill which may point at raising fears of confiscation among the more paranoid-minded: the bill includes a provision to prevent seizure, for private parties who want to avoid another 1933 style confiscation of their bullion by Federal authorities.

Presumably there are still multiple ways for messages to be intercepted from the user's iPhone: - Physical access or confiscation of the device - Possible backdoor in iOS or the physical iPhone hardware?

On the up-side, at least you haven't run into the "confiscation through anonymous tip line" issue, yet.

But the solution is to close loopholes and make the tax system simpler and clearer, not have a "general tax avoidance rule" which I take to mean arbitrary confiscation and punishment according to political whims.

It is an oddity that in the face of someone advocating for "some form of regulation" you immediately jump to property confiscation.

Full decentralization and "censorship resistance(aka freedom)" are important when there is a threat of property confiscation, which will become increasingly relevant when states become desperate for more revenue (already happening).

Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.