I (35/m/HRH) just lowered tea taxes on my colonies (166/gender neutral) and now they're throwing the tea in the harbor. AITAH?

I recently finished up a very expensive dispute against my neighbor (63/m/HRH), they started when they built a tree fort in the woods that was over my colony's property line and beat up one of my colonists when they asked them to move.

I spent a lot of my money that I didn't have to resolve this fight where my neighbor got all of his friends to gang up on me. Fortunately I won out in the end, but it drained my bank accounts and hurt my import/export business I run in India. So my friend Townshend (46/m/dead) suggested it, and I ended up having to ask my colonists for more money just for a little bit till I got my head above water, but they got really mad about it because they claimed they had no say so in it. Well it's my colony and they live in it and I should be allowed to charge them for living under my reign.

Anyway. It started getting really heated and they started hating me. I later found out they were sneaking tea themselves so they didn't have to pay me at all for it! Well my new friend North (41/M/TRH) suggested changing the way I get them the tea, which would lower how much they paid me for the tea I got them and I could still make up for having to take care of them. I had hoped this would make them happy since it's fair and I could get my finances straighted out.

Well, they didn't like it at all. Now they're culturally appropriating Indigenous American culture and throwing my legal tea in the harbor! I paid to protect them, I helped raise them, and now I feel like they're being so ungrateful. They say that if I'm going to charge them money for all of the tea, the goods, the protection I give them, they want a say so in how I run things. The problem is, is that they don't live in my house but across the lake on the property I let them use.

Chat, AITAH?