King George gave them more/different taxes than the people residing in Britain, because he was in a bad mood that they left. He hurt businesses and made way too many taxes, on things like tea, paper, sugar, and much more, just because he could. Especially since the patriots didn't even want to be a part of Britain, they were enraged at these taxes. Would you want to be in this situation? I think not.
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"people started runing out of money" but not only that! people didn't want to pay taxes to the king if the taxes didn't benefit them and they were tired of having to be taxed without representation in parliament.
"Taxation without representation"
Because they were losing.
The Founders felt that the British government was not protecting their rights because the British stopped the colonists' trial in the jury, taxed the colonists without their consent, and didn't always go for common good.
He was not real big on states rights'
Anti-Federalists only approved the commerce compromise after it was guaranteed that the SouthÕs exports would not be taxed and that Congress would not ban the slave trade for twenty years. The Anti-Federalists were against the national government having so much control over commerce.
There have been six Kings George of the United Kingdom. Some were popular. Some were unpopular. Some were popular at some times and unpopular at others. Some were popular in some places and unpopular in others. Lots of people (in western China, for example) probably never heard of them.