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The Guardian - US
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Eric Berger

Republicans’ plan for zero state income tax could be ‘devastating’, experts warn

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The Missouri capitol in Jefferson City. Photograph: David A Lieb/AP

Hannah Rejali, 34, lived through the failed so-called “Kansas Experiment” in the 2010s, when the Republican governor cut the state’s income tax to try to give a “shot of adrenaline” to its economy but instead left the state with a $900m budget shortfall.

That meant, for example, that in 2015, at least eight school districts ended their academic year early.

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