Payday loans often carry punitively high interest charges.

薪资贷款(Payday loans)往往伴随极高的利息收费。

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The Senate delayed consideration of its proposal to tax such bonuses punitively after the White House gave the plan a cool reception.

由于白宫方面并不欢迎这一计划，参议院推迟审议一项关于对这些奖金进行大幅度征税的动议。

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Stock options as a recruiting tool don't get you far, since they're taxed more punitively abroad.

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That would only expose a country to punitively high borrowing costs, triggering a crisis that this plan is designed to avoid.

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But they also get a huge stick alongside it: punitively high fees.

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