{"id":1177,"date":"2026-05-14T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:40:51","slug":"republicans-plan-for-zero-state-income-tax-could-be-devastating-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Republicans\u2019 plan for zero state income tax could be \u2018devastating\u2019, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Missouri asks voters whether to eliminate tax, experts say claims it will grow businesses and create jobs aren\u2019t true<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Rejali, 34, lived through the failed so-called \u201cKansas Experiment\u201d in the 2010s, when the Republican governor cut the state\u2019s income tax to try to give a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/dec\/10\/donald-trump-kansas-failed-tax-cuts\">shot of adrenaline<\/a>\u201d to its economy but instead left the state with a $900m budget shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>That meant, for example, that in 2015, at least eight school districts ended their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/may\/05\/kansas-education-funding-early-summer-sam-brownback\">academic year early<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/state-income-tax-cuts-republicans-missouri\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Missouri asks voters whether to eliminate tax, experts say claims it will grow businesses and create jobs aren\u2019t true Hannah Rejali, 34, lived through the failed so-called \u201cKansas Experiment\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1177\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}