Atheist 2020
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No. They opposed taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
The reason that taxation was a problem during the 1770's, was a currency issue. Gold was only used in the United Kingdom, not in the colonies of the United States of America or any other colonies during that era. If you were a citizen of the United Kingdom, and you had a vast amount of gold, and you wanted to move to the colonies of the United States: you had to sell your gold and choose cheaper coins to move to America. During that era, landowners were land rich and cash poor, and currency was not there in the amounts needed to pay taxes with currency. The only other way to pay taxes, was selling their harvest to pay taxes. The American War, was not started by the poor, or the middle class -- it was started by the landowners.
Taxes as the reason for the war is strange. Before the start of the war, the colonies of the United States of America was paying 25% less in taxes then if they were living in the United Kingdom. But, in the United Kingdom, you could pay your taxes in gold were it was common and in the American colonies, currency was very limited.