I am taxed to work. I am taxed when I buy property. I am taxed going to dinner. I am taxed when I die. How is it even legal to tax someone for purchasing a used item, such as a car, that has already been taxed? Why can I never own my property, even after it’s paid off, because I continue to be taxed on it forever. Once an item has been taxed and said tax has been paid, it should not be taxed again! Let me own my property and not only rent it from the government!
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You are taxed and may not even realize it. I read an article a long time about “value-added” (hidden) taxes. Do you know if you buy a dozen eggs, you are paying at least 59 value-added taxes. The farmer who grows the corn that is fed to the chickens that lay the eggs pays property taxes, maintenance costs on the equipment, fertilizer costs, employees wages and insurance, insurance, etc. and all of that is folded into the cost of his crop. The same thing for the company that buys the corn and makes the feed, the company that raises the chickens and produces the eggs, the store where you buy it, and the trucking companies that move it all from point A to B to C to D, etc… And that is on everything you buy.
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Quite right, Bob! What you describe is similar to a ditch, that flows into a creek, that flows into a stream, that flows into a river, that flows into the ocean; with each leg of the water journey adding just a little more water along the way, until it adds up to millions of tons dumping into the ocean. The water’s journey is much like the product life cycle, from source to the final destination on store shelves. If that final price is broken down into the tiny added taxes all along its journey, it might constitute the bulk of the product’s end price. And in a world of thousands of product lines consumed by millions of Americans, these combined annual taxes are unbelievably massive, and exist in everything we purchase. And then…
… a final sales tax is slapped on top of the product, for good measure, taxing all of the added micro-taxes that we just discussed. 
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Excellent example, thanks.