Grenville believed his taxation demands were reasonable for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that A) Britain's national debt had doubled between 1754 and 1764.
B) the colonial customs service was paying out four times the amount in salaries than they were receiving in revenue.
C) the English had been paying a tax similar to the one created by the Stamp Act for nearly a century.
D) an earlier tax on molasses had succeeded in forcing the colonists to stop buying molasses from the French and the Dutch.