I have always thought that some company should have the guts to list the ‘tax content’ of their products like that have to show ‘domestic content’, ‘calorie content’ etc. I would calculate if from total average taxes paid over five years by the company in relation to the average selling price. Would not take into account suppliers taxes...but it would be a start. Heck, just post the tax content of a gallon of gas at the pump would be a great start.
How can any company know the answer? I have a friend that had a company that built filters for really big swimming pools. He bought a variety of raw materials. How could he know how much of the cost of each of those raw materials included city taxes, county taxes, state taxes, school taxes, etc, etc?
That's why politicians love all of these different independent taxing authorities. It makes it virtually IMPOSSIBLE to ever figure out what the TOTAL cost of government. I'd call it their “divide and conquer” strategy.