[kccoder]

Property tax, sales tax, tariffs, ...

[fakedang]

Funny how you all rebelled in the good old days over a tax of 3 pence per pound of tea.

[wqaatwt]

IIRC it was mainly about the government giving the East India Company a monopoly on all tea imports sidelining local merchants in Boston.

The tax was used to rile up the mobs by merchants/smugglers, because the monopoly tea was actually cheaper than what they could ship from Holland.