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This is at best questionable. Colonial complaints made little difference, it was the English merchant complaints that appeared to have actually caused Parliament to make changes to the tax laws, because the way the Colonies showed their displeasure with the taxes was simply to boycott the taxed...

What responsibilities did they shirk? They paid the taxes that were placed on them, it's not like the Colonies had some special carve out from taxation, Parliament set the taxes on goods and the Colonies paid for them when they bought those goods. They may not have liked those taxes, and...

Except that Parliament had been functionally dissolved during the English Civil War and the Lord Protector's Reign and the then present Parliament was effectively called in 1660. I know England likes to claim it's all the same Parliament, but there's a serious lack of continuity in government...

Err, no they weren't? The colonial legislatures were quite formalized, being created by the various charters that created said colonies. Typically the set up was that a colony had a governor appointed by the Crown, who acted as the Executive of the colony and represented the King's interest...

There was no ongoing defense costs once the Seven Years War was complete, and your entire claim that the colony's issues were propaganda are revisionism. The idea of Independence in the colonies did not take hold until well into the 1770s, long after the American colonies had made multiple...