The colonists were being charged a tax rate that was merely 10% of the rate being charged back in England. Taxation simply doesn’t make sense as a motive for revolution.
Except that that low rate of tax was so low that it made it cheaper for customers to buy legal tea than to buy smuggled tea. The smugglers, like founding father John Hancock, didn’t like that.
The colonists were being charged a tax rate that was merely 10% of the rate being charged back in England. Taxation simply doesn’t make sense as a motive for revolution.
Except that that low rate of tax was so low that it made it cheaper for customers to buy legal tea than to buy smuggled tea. The smugglers, like founding father John Hancock, didn’t like that.