That's funny because when renting in Germany your landlord does pass on various fees and taxes like this but they still have to give you an itemized bill spelli

That's funny because when renting in Germany your landlord does pass on various fees and taxes like this but they still have to give you an itemized bill spelling out every single fee and tax individually and for shared utilities they have to spell out the before and after readings of the meter so you can double-check with the previous bill. Likewise on every price increase my German electricity provider gives me a listing of each fee and tax that goes into the price. This is routinely used to point out "hey, we're not being greedy, most of this actually goes to your government so maybe deregulating us would save you money, wink-wink, nudge-nudge". If e.g. Comcast thinks its taxation is particularly punishing and anti-competitive, increasing transparency about this would actually help make their argument for them. That they still prefer to be intransparent and pretend this is unreasonably difficult when they literally have to do all the same accounting internally anyway suggests the intransparency is giving them an advantage.