that said and done, lets get some realist thought in here
All british citizens got taxed. The acts that Parliament passed just enforced the idea that americans were british citizens as well and had to pay taxes (equity among all subjects). Because there was a war debt, and Parliament felt that it was about time the americans started fufilling their civil duties to the "motherland," they passed some acts. The americans were pissed off about this, protesting that it was an infringement upon their rights (what rights? the rights as a british citizen? If they followed those rights, they would be paying up).
all in all, the americans were a bunch of stingy hippies.
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"The weight of this sad time we must obey,/ Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say./ The oldest hath borne most; we that are young/ Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
King Lear (V.3.300-304)
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