Quote Originally Posted by Bopa the Magyar View Post
Umm, well, wouldn't you say that Britain rather deserved those taxes? Since Britain had just spent a massive amount of money defending the colonies? Ro be honest, it was only avery small amount of money and the colonists all owed their land to the Crown.
In my view, the men whom formed the Congress were nothing more than middle class wigs who saw an opportunity and took it, thus why they used such absurdly high minded language, to hide the fact that they were base opportunists.
And in some regions of America, it was nothing but bloody mindedness.
The causes of the revolution were many, what it boiled down to was fear among the Americans that britain would descend into tyranny as had several other countries in that time period.

The whiskey tax, though unfair, was not reason enough for rebellion, no more so than the stamp tax alone would have been.