Prior to the American Revolution, the British
repealed all of the new taxes they had levied on the colonists, with the
exception of the "sin" taxes, such as taxes on whiskey and tobacco.
Size comparison Venezuela is about 1.2 times smaller than Colombia. Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Venezuela is approximately 912,050 sq km, making Venezuela 80.08% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (20.4 million fewer people live in Venezuela).
The main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War was that the African American people were prevented from leaving the very plantations where they had worked as slaves. The African Americans were bound to the land since they were buying the land through sharecropping.
No. Taxation without representation is theft. Government is suppose to do what the people desire, so if the people do not have a platform to tell the government what they need, then the government has no right to tax them.