Why did the colonists feel that the Tea Act violated their rights?

they taxed the tea so they got mad for taxing the tea.

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Actually, The tea act LOWERED the price of the tea.

2 reasons that the colonists were angry was because it violated their English right, of only being taxed by their elected representatives, NOT Parliment.

Another reason, is because the East India Company was given a special 'treatment' that allowed it to ship tea cheaper than other places, thereby giving it the oppritunity to sell it cheaper, making it where the foreign merchants in the colonies go out of buisness for selling so high.