Taxes taxes taxes... I have heard this mentioned since their arrival in the colonies.
The War of Independence was NOT about taxes.
The War was fought as a work-around to circumvent the Treaty of 1761 and the Royal Proclamation of 1763. These were to prevent the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Watershed the European powers had to prevent the westward hoe as per agreements/treaties with the First Nations Peoples.
Everyone wanted western expansion as a manifest destiny, so the ONLY way to get colonists to the west without being stopped by the European Powerhouses was to have a faux war... have it last 6 to 7 years - to socially nudge the mindset of the colonists, then to all of a sudden have the British Military loose. Voila = a New Country is created and it is neither tied nor bound by the treaties and agreements made by others. This new country was the solution to the 'Indian Problem' as it was viewed. The country was created and the colonists... well went all the way to the Pacific Ocean slaughtering the First Nations Peoples with each advancement westward.
To present the story as needing taxes to be raised/paid to build grand homes, is FALSE. They had slave labour and Indentured Servants, so the cost of buildings were just man-hours which the land owners already possessed.
Over 80% of Europeans arrived as Indentured Servants and 100% of Africans were sold to the slave traders. Slave / Indentured Servant... treated the same with the exception the IS's would be released at age 21 or 25 (if they had not married nor any pregnancies - if so tied to the landowner for life) and would be granted 40 acres and a mules for their years of servitude typically from the age of 8 or 9. If you were 10 or 11, you were sold into IS as a 8 or 9yo.
Stop glazing over the real historical facts and stop perpetrating the myth of taxation as the cause of the faux war of 1776.
*The Proclamation of 1763 angered the British colonists because it prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountain range. Furthermore, those who had already settled in the region were required to relocate to the eastern side of the Appalachians.