Yup, for small businesses, taxes are crushing. The company I work for pays corporation tax, franchise tax, unemployment tax, medicare tax, property tax, not only on the premises, but on what is inside, including inventory, sales tax (but we do collect that from the customer, so maybe it shouldn't count), a fee on our sign, permit fees, state registration fees, registration fees for EACH municipality we do work in (and there are a lot of them), taxes built into the fees on refrigerants we recover and recycle, taxes on our phone service, which are at a higher rate than residential, the same on the water we use, the same on our internet service, and the same on the electricity we use.
Of course, we do pass all this on to the consumer, as do all other contractors. Ever wonder why your A/C and heating system costs about 3 times as much as it did 10 years ago? Part of it is mandated higher efficiency standards - OK, no problem with that. It means fewer power plants have to be built, resulting in less reliance on foreign oil. Part of it is the switchover to new refrigerants which contain no chlorine, meaning compressors and coils in new units must be larger and more expensive - OK, no problem with that, as this is helping to shrink the ozone hole. And, of course, part of it is the huge increase in taxes. Now that, I have a problem with, but like I said, we merely pass those costs on to the consumer. When our taxes go up, it is you who pays it, not us.
While you are at your Tea Party, screaming about being overtaxed, think about more than just income tax. You are being taxed to death in ways you never imagined.