I think the source of confusion is that you should realize you have two distinct roles in the economy: 1. You are a seller of labor who effectively charges your employer for your expenses including tax and 2. you are an end consumer who buys things that have corporate tax built into the prices which you cannot pass on.
Consider extreme hypethetical case: Joe has inherited a huge pile of cash, literally, and is otherwise unemployed. He has no income, not even interest because it's cash, and just spends as needed. Joe pays corporate income tax as built into prices. He cannot pass it on to anyone.
The opposite extreme example is Mary, who has a job and calculated what take home she needed after taxes and demands salary accordingly. She is such an amazing mooch that she never buys anything. Mary effectively pays no taxes because she's baked that cost into her salary demand (although of course she fills out irs paperwork and whatnot) .
The point is that only the end consumer (when acting in an end consumer role) really pays all the accumulated income taxes.
Some people fool themselves as if there was no such thing as income tax they've ever heard about and think that a salary of X means X is what is "theirs" and then they act surprised that the irs is "taking my money". This was true the first year the first income tax law was passed. To any modern person, you should know tax is an expense that is coming, like it or not, and treat it accordingly by baking it into your salary expectation.
