You just end up paying more sales tax and/or property tax in states without income tax. If you don’t directly pay property tax, your landlord does, and they pas

You just end up paying more sales tax and/or property tax in states without income tax. If you don’t directly pay property tax, your landlord does, and they pass the cost onto you. States need money to operate, and they’ll get that money through taxation. I’d actually be curious to see a table that shows ‘tax revenue per citizen’ by state, which includes all personal (non-corporate) taxes.