Question

Why do you think the same people who didn’t want to pay taxes to the British during the Revolution, such as Sam Adams, were so angry when citizens in their own nation didn’t want to pay taxes?

Answer 1

Many colonists believed that as they were not represented in the distant British parliament, any taxes it imposed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts) were unconstitutional, and were a denial of the colonists' rights as Englishmen