Did King George 3 really fuck over Americans with high taxes or was he just a powerless figurehead with no supreme executive power while UK PM Lord North was doing this high tax shit behind the scenes?
>fuck over americanswhy does everyone say this when the taxes only affected the mercantile class
>>214544340I think it was more about the principle of it all. They were making money, just not as much as they could be, with zero benefit to them.
>>214544340I think Parliament was more to blame and George III was more or less an easy scapegoat for the colonists. I'm sure he had influence to a capacity, but it's easier to blame one man than blame a system of men.