A major reason for the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was Shay’s Rebellion. The rebellion occurred when farmers in Massachusetts became enraged over imprisonment by many would could not pay high taxes due to Revolutionary War debt.
The rebellion was put down, but the Framers recognized the need to resolve the debt. The government lacked this power under the Articles of Confederation, so they granted it in the Constitution and the federal government assumed the debts of the individual states.
Especially since much of that debt consisted of notes paid to them as wages when they were soldiers and which they had had to trade at heavily discounted values because no one wanted US notes. Now the state was trying to redeem the notes at full face value by taxing the very men who had been cheated with the notes to begin with.
I'd get my gun too.