Tax revolts are not a modern day creation. According to Charles - TopicsExpress

Tax revolts are not a modern day creation. According to Charles Adams, tax revolts are suggested to have led to the collapse of Aztec, Egyptian, Roman, and Spanish Empires. The Magna Carta’s origin lies in a revolt against the high taxes imposed by King John. The United States of America was founded, in part, by a tax revolt related to a British tax on tea. In March 1930, Mahtama Gandhi led a massive march of protest against the British imposed salt tax which began an almost two-decade long process of creating an independent India. In 1990, hundreds of thousands of British citizens protested the community charge (aka poll tax), a protest that unfortunately deteriorated into a riot popularly known as the Battle of Trafalgar, and began the downfall of then prime minister Margaret Thatcher.