=================== Good points. TN,FLA has no icome tax; but TN has a big food /retail tax of over 10%.But no tax on services, like a legal tax. TN gives tax breaks to farm supplies[no sales tax on seeds]. But of course you get more tax revenue , when you cut taxes. Everybody went accross the state line to buy tobacco, because TN has big cig/tobacco taxes. And of course many larger cities have lost revenue on their high RE taxes/excessive gov control; people simply move to the county, so lower taxes help the county, just as higher city property taxes cut [lowered] the city revenue.
The top 10% of earners pay over 70% of all income taxes. The bottom 50% pay just under 3% of all income taxes. Not only that, but 43 million americans with postive AGI pay no income taxes and some even receive "refunds". http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/250.html