Just saw this from Newsmax. One of the more interesting items was a table showing the percentage of debt as part of states budgets for the no income tax states vs the income tax states.
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There have been a number of both empirical and theoretical studies showing the negative impacts of state income taxes and particularly those with high marginal rates on economic growth within the state.
A recent study published in the Cato Journal by professors Barry W. Poulson and Jules Gordon Kaplan, which was carefully controlled for the effects of regressivity, convergence, and regional influences in isolating the effect of taxes on economic growth in the states concluded: "Jurisdictions that imposed an income tax to generate a given level of revenue experienced lower rates of economic growth relative to jurisdictions that relied on alternative taxes to generate the same revenue."
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another snipet:
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On average, schools, health and safety, roads, etc. are no better in states with income taxes than those without income taxes. More importantly, the evidence is very strong that people are moving from high-tax states to lower-tax-rate states — the migration from California to Texas and from New York to Florida being prime examples. (Next year, the combined federal, state, and local income tax rate for a citizen of New York City will be well over 50 percent, as contrasted with approximately 38 percent for citizens of Texas and Florida.)
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And in the last paragraph:
"The states without state income taxes overall have had far better economic performance for most of the past several decades than have the income tax states — particularly those with high marginal taxes.
The Tea Party movement indicates that it might be the right time politically for politicians in the income tax states to call for those taxes to be phased out.
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Thank You Mr Rahn
| States | Income Tax | State Debt as % of Income |
| Without Individual Income Tax | ||
| Tennessee | 0 | 2.02 |
| Texas | 0 | 2.70 |
| Nevada | 0 | 4.07 |
| Wyoming | 0 | 4.90 |
| Florida | 0 | 5.20 |
| Washington | 0 | 7.93 |
| South Dakota | 0 | 10.95 |
| New Hampshire | 0 | 14.10 |
| Alaska | 0 | 24.01 |
| Highest Individual Income Tax rates | ||
| Iowa | 9.28 | 6.47 |
| Maryland | 9.23 | 7.26 |
| California | 10.55 | 7.55 |
| Oregon | 11.36 | 8.61 |
| Hawaii | 11.00 | 11.89 |
| New Jersey | 9.06 | 12.01 |
| New York | 10.67 | 12.22 |
| Vermont | 8.95 | 13.12 |
| Rhode Island | 9.9 | 20.04 |
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