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Why did the british feel it was necessary to impose new taxes on the american colonists?

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Answer: "They had no say in the government that was taxing them."

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Britain was in debt because of the Seven Years War that was fought to protect American colonists, so they thought that it was fair for the colonists to pay for the debt.

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