Repeal the Stamp Tax?

You are a member of British Parliament, 1766

Last year you voted to impose a tax on Americans for the expenses your treasury incurred in the French & Indian War. It was a tax that required all paper goods to have the kings seal impressed on the paper. Americans would have to purchase these "stamps" from the tax collectors.

Americans have refused to pay these taxes, mostly on the grounds that they have no seat in Parliament, and no tax should be passed without representation of those taxed.

The Americans have gone further: they have assaulted the stamp tax collectors by stripping them down, pouring hot tar on their bodies, then placing feathers on the tar to make them look like chickens. Now, no one is willing to accept employment as a tax collector in America.

Not only have Americans refused to pay the tax, they have boycotted English products, which is causing economic distress in England

The American Benjamin Franklin has come to London to convince Parliament that you should "repeal" the tax, and that if you do, Americans will begin again to buy English goods and will stop the violence against the King's tax officers