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by yummyfajitas 5163 days ago
...states [1] with no income tax make up the top 9 slots where the bottom 20% pay many times more in taxes than the top 1%...

By itself, this statistic is meaningless. A state with a progressive tax system but lower rates of inequality will score poorly on this metric than a state with higher inequality but an identical tax system.

I.e., you might be showing Tennessee has a regressive tax system, or you might be showing Tennessee has low inequality. Without more details we cannot determine this.