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

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 . “You say, [former Kansas governor Sam] Brownback, to anyone on the Kansas side, and they shudder,” Rejali said. …