I think you are right. The United States was not founded that way, which is why I suggested in another post that they founders would have added limits on the government’s ability to tax (particularly property) if it had seen what would end up happening.
So, perhaps the US government wasn’t founded for the sole purpose taxation, and one could say that the declaration of independence was strongly against it, but that “representation” qualifier for taxation sure doesn’t seem to have worked out any better than royal tyranny.
Maybe this result was part of the reason behind Jefferson saying we need a revolution every 25 years. Power is just too tempting and inevitably attracts the wrong kind of people.