“I’m not the first person to challenge these assertions. Figures from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and economist Peter Fisher, respectively, show the same story as that above in previous years. No-income-tax states do not outperform high-income-tax states, and the ALEC-Laffer rankings have been consistently terrible at predicting state economic performance.”
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