Hannah Rejali, 34, lived through the failed so-called “Kansas Experiment” in the 2010s, when the Republican governor cut the state’s income tax to try to give a “ shot of adrenaline ” to its economy but instead left the state with a $900m budget shortfall. That meant, for example, that in 2015, at least eight school districts ended their academic year early . “You say, [former Kansas governor Sam] Brownback, to anyone on the Kansas side, and they shudder,” Rejali said. Rejali now lives next door in Missouri, where Republicans now also want to eliminate the state income tax. A mother of four, she worries that it would lead to a reduction in state funding for schools. “From a public education standpoint, the income tax being removed would be pretty devastating,” said Rejali, who lives in Kansas City and co-owns a marketing agency. Missouri is the first state in more than a century where a state legislature is asking voters whether to eliminate the tax, the Associated Press reports .…