They thought just tax them no one can stop us
Because they thought there should be no taxation without representation in Parliament.
It was not the tax that bothered them that much as it was the taxation without representation in the British Parliament. The colonists had no say in their governance, so they thought the tax was arbitrarily imposed.
Taxation created tension because the Americans thought it was unfair to pay taxes to the parliaments when the Americans had no representation in the parliament.
Many colonists thought taxation without representation was fundamentally wrong.
A major driving force behind this stage in history was that colonists had no formal representation in the Parliament, and thus came their sayings based around "No taxation without representation." They objecting to being forced into taxes when they had no representation to make their will known in the British Parliament. The colonists originally asked for parliament to grant them the seats they wanted.
They claimed, "No taxation without representation." They refused to be taxed because they were unable to elect members of Parliament that were making these tax laws. Hence, they thought it unfair to have to pay them while having no say in the tax-making process or having their views heard in government.
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
The colonists thought Parliament had no right to tax them directly.
They thought that it was unfair because the tax was too high and the colonists were unable to afford it, they had thought the laws were unfair because England was trying to control them. the colonists wanted independence and were not going to pay the unfair tax on everything. taxation but no representation e.g. vote or voice
Duh! The colonists felt that they were still British Citizens & thought that they should've had ALLof the rights of a, well...Citizen. One of those rights were "Representation in Parliament" WHICH they were NOT given even after YEARS of trying!
Because some people thought taxation without representation was bad.