To starve aposing countrys of needed money for goods
It was feudalism. you have to look at the frame of the crusades.
The colonists opposed the taxes imposed after the French and Indian War
because they claimed that since the colonies had no representation in
parliament, Parliament had no right to tax them.The British
parliament was of the opinion that this was the
way they could cover the cost of the French and Indian War. This
actually was
the basis for a greater revolution among the colonists in the later
stages.
B) imports
The Townsend acts taxed imports, such as tea, they wanted to receive revenue from colonists.
That would depend on YOUR opion!
I honestly would have believed him, but I still would have had my doubts.