Yet Britain still tried to keep them under its power. One day, the Royal Crown begins to run out of funds for the war. They needed money to support their battle efforts. The solution they found was to raise taxes on the colonists ("Causes of the American Revolution"). The people of the colonies were outraged. Why? Not just because they were overtaxed, but because they had not been consulted on the issue. England did not confer with the colonies on these terms at all. They simply implemented their laws and imposed tax increases. Predictably, the colonists would not take this lightly. To avoid paying these taxes, they began to boycott British goods. Britain was actually losing money. They would spend the money on imports and sending it to the colonies, only to be rejected by the people. Eventually the taxes were removed. Except the law that increased taxes on tea. Many now know what follows, the Boston Tea Party. This was a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Boston colonists dressed up as Indians and threw huge quantities of tea into the harbor in protest of high taxation. This was one of the first large-scale revolutionary acts. Thousands of dollars of damage done. Although Thomas was not involved, his writings inspired such acts. We must deal with the power of the press