Because Britain’s constant warfare was politically consuming and economically expensive, the empire was led towards an assuring instability. The greatest difficulties for British authority was to decide on the different imperial visions of British officials over the colonies and figuring out how to merge all of the various interests in the post-colonial warfare, such as the newly acquired land. The competing visions over the reformation of the administration in the colonies divided the British officials. The old Whigs, and supporting Tories, envisioned an authoritarian empire. Their proposition was that in order to eliminate Britain’s national debt they would begin “raising taxes and cutting spending on the colonies” (American Yawp, chp. 5).