*ok I'm Australian I'm just basing what I know of this from what I've read and heard from the musical* ok so basically Hamilton was in control of the capital and to raise it he needed tariffs (tax) from certain people, therefore tariff would help him get ahead of Jefferson and Madison who had control of the banks (I think)
The colonists should Seperate from the British Empire because the King of England was unfair towards the people in the colonies. The Colonist were in need of a new Government to have rights that they didn't have before.