Though they received generous settlements, each prince was also burdened with a crippling tax.

He imposed crippling taxes while the country's population continued to decline.

North: Yes, clouds that harbinger an end to crippling taxes - a new beginning.

These attempts were costly and crippling taxes were placed on the peasantry.

Starvation wages, low prices and crippling taxes drove many to desperation and caused social upheavals on the land.

"Instead the administration's only answer is Draconian cuts and crippling taxes."

But that would require imposing crippling taxes on productive businesses or printing money - a prescription for hyperinflation.

Not even unfair, crippling or draconian taxes.

Without the crippling taxes of Tamil Nadu, beer is relatively cheap and accommodation good value.

He persecuted the Jewish population of Tuscany and imposed crippling taxes upon the populace.