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Have you ever heard of the "Jewish Kosher Tax?" Its a Tax paid to the Jewish Orthodox Union on US products that have been blessed. These "fees" pull in over 14 billion per year from the US as a non profit business and sent back to Israel. (subvertednation.net)

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[–]TheFapp3ning 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (21子コメント)

Is it actually a government mandated tax or is it money given to the JOU by Jewish companies? That's kind of a big difference and your linked article is a little unclear about that. That's like calling Mormon tithes a Mormon tax.

You're free to abuse the English language all you want, but the word tax has a very specific definition. Unless the money is

a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.

it's not a tax.

[–]-3E- 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's will be exposed. A blessing on food already fit consumption is not needed today. The scam will go down in flames!

[–]Ivotedin2016 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Its needed for people who want to eat Kosher. Are you arguing they don't need to follow their religion anymore?

[–]Satchmo1984iguess 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

how many jewish people are there in america? they must make the vast majority in order to cater exclusively to them right?

[–]DronePuppet[S] -4 ポイント-3 ポイント  (16子コメント)

Sorry..Its a hidden tax.

What we learned next, pretty much floored me personally. I learned that major food companies throughout America actually pay a Jewish Tax amounting to hundreds of million of dollars per year in order to receive protection. This hidden tax gets passed, of course, to all non-Jewish consumers of the products. The scam is to coerce the companies to pay up or suffer the consequences of a Jewish boycott. Jewish consumers have learned not to buy any kitchen product that does not have the (U) the (K) and other similar markings.

http://www.rense.com/general24/koshernostra.htm

[–]Ivotedin2016 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (2子コメント)

How is it a scam? Who do you think is buying Jewish food?

[–]killerkadooogan 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

... Jews?

[–]TheFapp3ning 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (12子コメント)

I'm not sure why you keep using the word tax if it's not a tax...

[–]Billistixx 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (8子コメント)

So what is it?

[–]peisistratid 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Sounds to me like paying a private organization to certify a product in a way that the FDA etc don't care about but many consumers do.

[–]Billistixx -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Yeah, but we need a word for it.

Also, many?

[–]peisistratid 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Apparently 11.2 million Americans buy kosher regularly. I would've expected it to be closer to half that, seeing as there aren't 11 million Jews in America, but even 5 million would be significant enough to motivate companies.

Words for things are nice. Words for things that do not actually describe what the thing is are not. It's a certification cost or a kosher surcharge or whatever you want to call it, but it's not a tax and companies don't have to pay it. The OP is making a big deal out of nothing.

[–]Billistixx 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Uh.

Like they have a choice? Heinz ketchup is kosher. Do you think Americans are buying it for the taste or because it's kosher?

[–]peisistratid 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I think my source was referring to people intentionally / purposefully buying kosher. I would imagine a lot more people buy kosher because it's the first thing they grab off the shelf. I don't see how that's a problem.

[–]Billistixx 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's a problem because there's added cost to a product.

Considering products just shrank again, cost more and at a time when gas is cheap, I don't see how it's fair that a product should have additional cost because a company paid someone an annual fee to check up on them.

The article that you cite doesn't help your case:

What accounts for more than 11.2 million Americans regularly buying kosher food, an impressive 13 percent of the adult consumer population? Fishkoff explains that of the total number of consumers who purchase kosher fare, only 14 percent do so because they observe kosher laws.

So out of the 11.2 Americans who are buying Kosher stuff not because they want/need to, just because it happens to be Kosher, of that only 14% of them actually give a shit that it's Kosher. Which means roughly only 2 Million Americans actually care/need Kosher products.

Yet almost every single edible product is Kosher.

All this money goes in to the pockets of a church that doesn't exactly need a lot of overhead to provide certification. A guy walks in and goes "Yeah, this is the same as it was last year, you're good, now pay up."

You know how annoying it is that CocaCola is downsizing their product size, charges the same price it did before, sells under Kosher but during passover changes it's nasty HFCS out for real sugar to make it Kosher?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Passover

So it wasn't "real" Kosher before? If passover Kosher is real Kosher, how come coke doesn't use real sugar all the time?

You can't see people being a little annoyed paying extra for products that seem to be certified under flimsy religious rules that they don't even follow and don't really seem to matter?

[–]lumen-superius 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Inflation is considered a hidden tax. What are your thoughts on that?

[–]SilverTaint 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Inflation is more or less government mandated and also if you read the book which I'm sure you got this from you'd learn that inflation is used by governments as a means of managing debt.

[–]DronePuppet[S] -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Because it says it right there "Jewish Tax".