Definition of "confiscatory" [con•fis•ca•to•ry]

• Using confiscation (adjective)

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• "In so doing, Congress is compounding the burden and is proposing to go far beyond any rational tax policy in what can only be described as a confiscatory manner."
• "Businesses with high profit margins, certainly anything above 3% (which is all the masses can get on a three-year CD, if they have any money at all) have to be taxed at what the greedy Repugs would call confiscatory rates, of something above 75%."
• "Marginal tax rates on the affluent were "confiscatory" by today's standards, she said."