"No taxation without representation" was a party line really Michael. It was a slogan that sounded nice. The real reason had nothing really to do with representation. It was the fact that import goods to the colonies were taxed multiple times, while export goods were taxed several times less. What that means is, England was keeping the colonies artificially poor by charging them more for import, and paying them less for export. If England would have played fair with the balance of taxes on both import and export, chances are the US would have continued to be a colony right up till the fall of the British Empire.
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