In the paragraph below what reasons does Thomas Paine give to support independence?

As for government matters, Britain cannot do this continent justice. Our government business will soon be too important and intricate to be managed by a power so distant from us and so very ignorant of us. . . . To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which then requires five or six more months to explain, will in a few years be looked upon as foolishness and childishness. . . .