English-Finnish translations for blood tax

Definition of blood tax

• A tax paid by bloodshed; especially, a derogatory term for military conscription

Examples

• "France is the mother of Conscription. What has she gained by that blood-tax?"
• "I appeal to the working men of Great Britain..not to be misled by catch-phrases about ‘the liberty of the subject’ and the ridiculous cant about a ‘Blood Tax’!"
• "They would have paid their blood-tax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature."

Related words

• blood sedimentation
• taste blood
• taking the blood pressure
• stage blood
• bloodstain
• bloodstained