Energyflow's reference below:
Many of the same observations are made in a Teaching Company Course, Before 1776. Great lectures, highly recommended. Professor Allison.
He specifically discusses how very low the actual tax burden on American colonists was.
Re such nonsense as 'no taxation without representation' arguments justifying the Boston Tea Party and Rebellion, etc., etc., the fact is that the colonists were among the most lightly taxed people, relatively speaking, in human history.
Furthermore, the practical difficulties of collecting either taxes or duties from the colonists was well documented, even back then. The British mostly ignored the problem, although the rhetoric was bitter.
Professor Allison, Teaching Company, "Before 1776", has some enjoyable lectures on these topics. See especially his illustration on the Crown agent's difficulties collecting duty on a sugar shipment.
https://dailyreckoning.com/was-the-american-revolution-a-mistake-2/
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