In America, most people are rather indifferent to history, or rather poor at it, or don't really care about it, to which, none of this lack of knowledge counts to the credit of America as whole. For most people, there is a general knowledge that we fought for our independence from Great Britain, however, a significant amount of people don't really know why, but figure it has something to do with us getting tired of being pushed around and shot at. While the actual reasons for our fight for independence are myriad, certainly one of the most important ones came down to taxation, to which, unlike the present day, taxes were primarily seen as the intolerable confiscation of wealth, and in general frown upon, as the undue use of force against colonists. So too, this meant, that the colonists when they had imposed upon them the notorious Stamp act, were vociferous in their protest of it. The colonists were especially upset on two accounts, of which one being that they were being charged a direct or internal tax, without having representation in the British parliament, which they found to be especially insidious, as well as being compelled to pay that tax without legal recourse.
While there are a multitude of taxes that we deal with today, the colonists at that point in history, looked upon taxes as being in one of two categories, of which one was an external tax on for example imported goods, in which, because it is a tax based on consumption as to what one wished to purchase or not it seemed understandable and often without controversy, as the ultimate decision was left up to the consumer of such a good. Then again, in situations in which the British government controlled the market by banning other competing imported goods, as well as there being little or no domestic industry in that commodity, boycotts and protests were vociferous. As for an internal tax, in this case the Stamp Act, that was deliberately set as being a tax upon all official documents such as writs, deeds, wills, and contracts of all sorts, that without the purchase of State approved paper bearing the State stamp, would by definition, not be recognized as legal in a court of law. This meant, that in order to conduct business in the course of events, you would as colonist, have to pay the Stamp Act tax.
Although it is true, that in America, as a sovereign nation, we do now have representation, it is problematic as to whether that representation actually represents the common man, whatsoever. In any event, the amount of taxes that Americans deal with on a daily basis, would make our Founding Fathers' heads spin, because we pay taxes on so many levels, which are not fairly or equally applicable on or for: social security, Medicare, State income, Federal income, excise, fuel, corporate, hotel, airlines, sales, property, and so forth, to which the list goes on and on and on.
If this government, was to pass a law, mandating that all legal contracts have a special Stamp seal associated to it, as a fee or form of taxation, there would probably not be much of a peep of a protest, because it would just be seen as just another tax, annoying or not, to go with all our other taxes, and the citizens of this country, would almost certainly just accept it. In fact, this is pretty much how things are done in America, presently, in which a significant amount of taxation is hidden from the view of the consumer, by being priced into the product being purchased to begin with which is often regulated and controlled by Federal law.
While it is true that the colonists won the Stamp Act battle, so too it is true, that ultimately they lost the tax battle war.