text: when the government taxes the big companies and corporations, do you realize? they just pass the tax on to the every day american?  check out your phone bill. there are more taxes placed on business than indivuals. and what you see is the effect of taxing the businesses which trickles down to the consumer, which is us. so when a business gets more taxes they have to make money to pay it. so, that ends up to be part of the extra money we have to pay to the companies. someone has to pay it..