If we value strong families, we can't perpetuate a system that actually penalizes those who stay together.
Inheritance taxation, moreover, has that inevitable element of unfairness that it leaves entirely untouched the wastrel who never laid by a cent in his life, andpenalizes him who practiced industry, self-denial and thrift.
Intentionally or not, yet effectively, it penalizes certain callings and sections of the country and favors others.
It is less attractive because it penalizes both the short term and the long-term financial players.
Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.
It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike.
Artificial interference with a more exact adjustment of wages to ability therefore penalizes the better workmen and subsidizes the worse ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penalizes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
