The slogan of the original Tea Party was 'no taxation without representation.' So, it's not quite accurate to posit a blanket tax aversion. It's akin to, somewhat, your discussion of benefit knowledge/ignorance: The colonists got no benefits-- and were not even able to ask for benefits-- without representation so they thought the taxation was unfair.

Later tax rebellions--Shays's rebellion and the Whiskey rebellion, in particular--were dealt with swiftly and paint the other side of the colonists view on taxation.

The culturual difference, in the here and now, between Europe and America are the free speech laws: in America the GOP has been outright lying about taxes, benefits, and deficits for years: what taxes do; who benefits from them; how deficits work; etc. They are repeatedly called out on their lies, but that hasn't stopped them from repeating them.