Thats an oversimplification so complete that is basically is a lie.
Firstly the taxes were raised largely on the American colonies to pay for the costs of the French-Indian war, which may seem reasonable at first since the colonies benefited the most in territories. Problem is that Britain more or less completely banned colonists doing anything in those lands, this created the issue where Britain was taxing for all of the colonies when they still effectively had the same economy as they did before the war.
Secondly the Taxes were fucking horrible, it was for all intents and purposes a tariff on all non-american goods. If it wasnt made in the american colonies then you had to pay a rather god awful tax. Also they did it twice.
Thirdly the rich were arguably the ones trying to do anything other than revolution. They tried to get the taxes repealed, get more autonomy for the colonies, and even just a couple seats in parliament, they got continuously ignored they became radicalized right alongside everyone else and said fuck it we go to war.
You were founded because rich people didn’t want to pay taxes to the crown.
Edit: sorry, not a reply to your post really, I just saw that and responded.
Thats an oversimplification so complete that is basically is a lie.
Firstly the taxes were raised largely on the American colonies to pay for the costs of the French-Indian war, which may seem reasonable at first since the colonies benefited the most in territories. Problem is that Britain more or less completely banned colonists doing anything in those lands, this created the issue where Britain was taxing for all of the colonies when they still effectively had the same economy as they did before the war.
Secondly the Taxes were fucking horrible, it was for all intents and purposes a tariff on all non-american goods. If it wasnt made in the american colonies then you had to pay a rather god awful tax. Also they did it twice.
Thirdly the rich were arguably the ones trying to do anything other than revolution. They tried to get the taxes repealed, get more autonomy for the colonies, and even just a couple seats in parliament, they got continuously ignored they became radicalized right alongside everyone else and said fuck it we go to war.