"The problem in the Colonies was not paying taxes; it was having no voice in their assessment or levying."

Not really, Amos. "No taxation without representation" was a rallying cry of the time, to be sure, but the last thing the revolutionaries really wanted was proportional representation in Parliament. Any "voice in their assessment or levying" that the colonies would have gained by having colonial representatives in Parliament would certainly have been outvoted anyway, so the colonies would have been stuck with ineffectual representation AND taxes, and would have had their principle argument for independence taken away.

No, the revolutionary colonists wanted independence, pure and simple. Fortunately for their cause, the mother country didn't call their bluff.

[In case you're wondering, I'm an American.]