From my understanding, the original American Revolution was as much about the English disallowing the colonists real estate scam artists from "buying" land from the Native Americans and reselling it for 100% profit as about any taxation issue. The biggies like Washington were huge land speculators. The whole tax issue is hugely conflated. The jokers who were getting shafted by taxes were the same who were not even allowed the vote under the original constiutional scheme. The tea party deal was in protest to the actual lowering of the price of tea to such an extent that the black market cased to become profitable. Kind of like dope dealers staging a revolution if pot is legalized, and Philip Morris could sell it for five bucks an ounce. The grat democratic experiment wasn't some altruistic excersize. It was about wealthy, white, landed, males fighting to protect their right to steal land and deal in high profit black market substances.

Which isn't to say it didn't eventually evolve into smething worth while, just that a whole lot of folks have way over romanticised a bunch of greedy SOBs from the mid eighteenth century.