Innocence officially gone

Not too different I'd imagine, taxes were far from the only issue with English colonial rule

There were tons of issues , I wonder if there would have been compromises and no revolt. I mean it could go into infinite possibilities , just pointless scifi kinda thought. Make a series with different paths of countries in pivotal times going the opposite direction . Czars in Russia and stuff.

Actually, funny enough- the king basically did say “forget the tax.” The taxes were imposed to recoup the cost of troop deployments against the French and Natives. They’d already abolished basically every tax except for the tea tax- which was so drastically reduced that at the time of the tea party tea had never been cheaper in New England. That’s a big part of the problem. The Dutch east India company had been given a monopoly and a huge government subsidy and tea was cheaper than ever which undercut the profits of many wealthy Colonists who’d made their trade smuggling items like tea. They were pretty upset. It’s no coincidence that the “founding fathers” were wealthy elites. At the time of the revolution 1/5 of Americans supported the crown, and over 100k fled to British Canada. It’s complex but the short version is that the school house tales of outraged and oppressed colonists are only a partial truth. Like most wars it was largely a war started by rich men looking to get richer.