Sons of Liberty in 3 parts- squash the little guy?

I just started watching the mini drama Sons of Liberty. Right off, we are introduced to Samuel Adams, a tax collector who doesn't effectively collect taxes & John Hancock, a merchant who is beating the duty (tax) system by paying off the governor. Always the way it has been? Let the 'job creators' slide while placing the burden on the backs of the working man. 

I know a lot about history, but not specific ideas like this in great detail. But this was the reason for the uprising in the colonies, Sam Adams as narrator would have us believe? That the fact that he failed to collect taxes on the working man led to revolution? And why would John Hancock be a willing collaborator? Beating the system not enough, why not be free from it all together? 

I'm looking at our local political situation: you have a democrat, Black mayor, running on the idea of no new taxes while our city's pension obligations are not being met and the inner core of the city is crumbling? And against him is running a 'job creator,' labeling himself as a political outsider, the recent past chairman of the Republican Party of Florida? From a Jan2014 letter to the Miami NBC affiliate over party 'name calling:'

Everyone wants services. But everyone wants to not pay for them. It is a crazy situation. 

There is just so much corruption. But maybe that's the way it has always been. Create a system, and the first thing the powerful will do is try to cheat it. Maybe the first thing anyone will do is try to cheat it. But those without means will pay immediately, whereas the powerful will have the means to combat it.