Why were the colonists angry about taxes?

The
colonists were angry about taxes because Great Britain for many years had practiced a policy
called "salutary neglect" in which they did not collect the taxes and tariffs that
they were legally entitled to. Everyone with power, British and American, was making money hand
over fist, so if the colonists were illegally trading on the side with countries other than
Britain or letting non-British goods into ports without paying tariffs, the...