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Happens all the time. Less in this part of the world, but still fairly frequently.
Define "martial law".
In a monopoly or monosony situation, a business is quite free to set prices however they want. They don't call it a "tax", but the effect is the same.
And every condominium charges fees that are what I would call something pretty darn close to property tax.
You have me on that one. When businesses are being truly nasty to a person, they tend to go the other way: causing death and pain when the people affected would prefer to live.
My country hasn't been attacked militarily by another country in 200 years. OTOH, it's been attacked by private organizations several times. (by the Fenian Brotherhood and the Babbar Khalsa, in particular).
And I would say that many corporate actions - e.g. the ones of Union Carbide in Bhopal - are just as bad as a military attack. When you're dying from poison gas, the question of whether it was dropped from a plane intentionally or released from a plant due to negligence is rather irrelevant. Either way, your freedom (and your life) is curtailed to the same degree.