who opposed taxation without representation?

Question

is it colonists or british??
please tell me the right answer!!!
thank u

Answer 1

~The colonists were, most of them, British. As to taxation without representation, that was a myth perpetrated by the rebel rabble rousers. All British citizens were represented in Parliament. No colonials served in Parliament. No request was ever made by any colony or colonist to have a right to serve in Parliament, so the issue was never even addressed.

The taxes in question were intended to allay the severe economic problems in the motherland. The homeland British had paid taxes to finance the Seven Years War (in the colonies, know as the French and Indian War) and the war, among other things, had all but bankrupted Great Britain. Parliament had this bizarre notion that the colonies should contribute to the cost of their own defence. Enter the Stamp Act. The colonials, on the other hand had already reaped the rewards of the presence of British forces on colonial frontiers and the removal of the French, so they bristled at having to pay for it. It was the start of the American foreign policy tradition of "you help me now, I'll screw you later."

The homeland British opposed taxation on them to send the revenues so badly needed at home to the colonies, how paid nothing for the government services they received, but they had no more representation than did their colonials kinsman.

Surely this must be in your text.

Answer 2

It was the colonists. The first to speak out was Samuel Adams. Although unsuccessful in conducting personal or public business, Adams took an active and influential part in local politics. By the time the English Parliament passed the Sugar Act (1764) taxing molasses for revenue, Adams was a powerful figure in the opposition to British authority in the Colonies. He denounced the act, being one of the first of the colonials to cry out against taxation without representation.

Answer 3

colonist opposed taxation put on them by the british... because most of the money was going back to england and they hadn't been used to being stuff like that put on them before. the brittish started taxing them to replenish their funds from the, if i remember correctly, french and indian war.

Answer 4

maximum taxation replace into from cost lists on foreign places products, which made them in reality non-compulsory of course no modern "conservative" in government now helps cost lists of any type...