Noun
blood tax (plural blood taxes)
A tax paid by bloodshed; especially, a derogatory term for military conscription.
"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."
blood-tax (plural blood-taxes)
Alternative spelling of blood tax
blood-tax