Businesses/shareholders DO pay taxes. For the same reason prices of goods didn’t drop 10% this year with corporate tax reform, not all costs can be passed onto consumer. Also ignores tradeoffs, US production cost variance and importing/exporting to other countries with more friendly trade policies.
The shareholders pay the taxes, but the corporate taxes are already collected before the share holders get their dividends So they’re taxes twice. Since all corporations are owned by individuals ie shareholders, then business taxes are just the government double dipping in the public trough
Nope. The end consumer pays all costs of a product whether it be taxes, labor, materials, shipping, everything. You are talking about internal cost structure where things can be moved around all over.