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Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.

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Arthur Laffer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: August 14
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Arthur Betz Laffer
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