People would spend a lot more time trying to steal what they need and a lot less time trying to produce what they need, as stealing something is often easier than producing it yourself. This leads to a reduction in economic growth.
If there wasn't a rate of a population tax change with income, people who have produced valuable goods would spend more time and money trying to protect what they've earned. This is not a productive activity; society would be much better off if citizens would spend more time producing productive goods.
The ideals of the Enlightenment had a major impact on the colonists and the founding fathers of the United States used many of these ideas in their new government. Major elements of our democracy, such as “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” came from Enlightenment writers like Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Even Thomas Jefferson’s famous phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” from the Declaration of Independence was adapted from John Locke’s phrase “Life, Liberty, and Property.”
Were the colonists right to declare independence from England through the Declaration of Independence? Is what I believe you are trying to say. The Boston Tea Party occurred prior, but the Declaration formalized the colonists desire for independence from Great Britain.
It disadvantaged the us as it had less and less nations to trade with as the European countries would colonize them