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con·fis·ca·tion

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  1. confiscation, arrogationnoun

    seizure by the government

    Synonyms:
    arrogation

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  1. confiscationnoun

    Synonyms:
    forfeiting, condemnation to public use

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  1. Walter E. Williams:

    Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. ... Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong -- in effect, legalized theft.

  2. Alan Gottlieb:

    This kind of below-the-radar bureaucratic gun confiscation is a growing Second Amendment and property rights violation problem, particularly in strict gun control states like California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, people can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees to get back a $500 firearm.

  3. Vice President Joe Biden:

    There are still things within our power as a nation we can do by returning to basics. Not left-leaning, liberal ideas that are bordering on confiscation, wealth-envy, basic, basic things: build roads, bridges, technology, invest in research and development and generate more educational achievement.

  4. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani:

    The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran officially complained about America to the International Court of Justice for the confiscation and theft of two billion dollars of the property of the central bank, and demanded the condemnation of Washington's anti-Iranian action and compensation for damages.

  5. Madeha Abdullah:

    They wage different wars, there is direct war through confiscation and censorship. There is an indirect siege on the paper's resources.


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