“Our call is my super biggest beggars in the world if such small duties appear to be intolerable burdened in their eyes” —“Pacificus”, Maryland gazette, March 20, 1766
This excerpt is from a citizen in England, in response to the colonial outrage for the stamp act. What central argument of the American colonists against the stamp act is not understood by the writer?
A. That trade was heavily restricted to the taxes, which made it difficult for the colonist to make enough money to live, let alone pay the taxes.
B. That, although the tax is small it is the idea that the colonist have to repay the British government for a war they did not support that is unjust
C. That it is not the amount of tax that is the problem, but rather the fact that the colonist were not involved in passing the tax.
D. That’s a tax may seem small to those in England, but for the American colonist, it is a very large amount of money.
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