Let's assume President Trump is successful in eliminating the federal income tax. I would be interested in your thoughts as to whether the states would follow suit, or if they would keep their income tax as before at the same rate. OR if they would jump at the chance to increase their tax rate because of the new "windfall" of money flowing into your pocket? What's your best guess?
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I'll pick "other."
I think that a high number of states, and especially the high income tax states, will be declared to have no legitimate government and therefore will be managed as federal territories until they can re-establish a legitimate government and qualify for reinstatement, similar to how the South wss treated in reconstruction. So they'll zero out completely in taxes for the immediate future.