It wasn't just the Townsend Revenue Act, there was the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Currency Act, and others. Basically, the colonists were getting taxed on almost everything except passing gas. Tea was far from the only product involved, and Hancock far from the only colonist or businessman getting reamed.
The East India Company was a royally-chartered monopoly (sort of an "anti-anti-trust" deal) that basically ruled India at the time. Kicking them in the arse would be another resume-enhancer in my book.
There is no conflict between libertarian ideas and the desire to earn and keep profits. Each leads to the other. I understand that to a liberal, the desire to keep more of one's own money is practically criminal, especially when there are so many better places liberals could spend it after they take it away from you. I don't have that view of it.
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