Take Campbells Tomatoe Soup.
The farmer sells the tomatoes to a Campbells and the value of the tomatoes is taxed.
The mining company that Sells the the aluminum ore to Reynolds pays a tax for extracting the ore.
Reynolds smelts the ore and makes aluminum sheets and adds a tax when it sells the aluminum to a can manufacturer.
The cans are made and a tax is added to the can which is sold to Campbells.
A tree is harvested and sold to the lumber mill and a tax is added.
The lumber is made into paper and a tax is added when the paper is sold to the printing factory,
A label is made using ink which was taxed and it is sold to Campbells and a tax is added.
And so it goes on and on. many layers of production and the tax is collected at each step. Now your Campbells soup is sold and a sales tax is added.
Government slurpping at every level!
And can the “1099” become the vehicle from which they get to slurp at the trough? That is the million dollar question I am asking....
You buy a can of Tomato soup and it costs $5.
You forgot:
Now your Campbell’s Soup costs $6.00