For background may want to look into the French Indian wars as these really cemented the future viability of the English speaking North American colonies and it was basically arguments over the bill that brought the whole independence thing to a head. Just like today - the rich (read truly wealthy as opposed to temporariy high income) did not want to pay their fair share of taxes so stirred everyone up into a frenzy of misdirection, IMO LOL.
Naturally, the individual reactions would have run the gamut, just as they always do when the subject of taxes comes up, but the general collective reaction would have been for the colonists to pay their taxes, just as patriotic citizens of the mightiest empire on earth should.
The problem is that Parliament took it upon itself to dictate tax policy to the colonists. The colonists did not recognize Parliament to have any authority over them whatsoever, and they stood on some fairly firm legal ground in doing so. Many of the colonial charters, signed by the king, had been originally written or subsequently updated to describe a situation in which the king appointed governors and judges, and the locals organized their own legislatures. In this arrangement, Parliament was redundant. It was in recognition of this situation that Parliament attempted to establish its authority with the Declaratory Act, which had as much effect as if it had voted itself emperor of Russia.
Given a tax bill from the king, the local legislatures would likely have produced their own tax structures that they could live with, and there would never have been a revolt. The proof is that the US is the only colony that ever did so, and afterwards Parliament largely quit meddling directly in the affairs of colonies.
