Why doesn't West Virginia or Kentucky or somewhere just not have taxes and see how that turns out?
You absolutely CAN see how that turns out.
Why do so many states offer sweetheart deals to corporations to basically offer near-zero taxes to move businesses in? Because they know that it'll move businesses in, those businesses will employ people, and then they'll get tax revenue from individual income tax, sales tax, individual property tax, etc.
People lament this, but it's absolutely a winning strategy to try to get corporations to bring jobs in, not charge the corporations any [or very little] taxes, because you can make it up from their employees.
I wouldn't have ended up in California if I weren't an electrical engineer and my first job was in a place aptly named Silicon Valley. And I won't stay if the jobs dry up, regardless of how much I like things here.
It's the reason rural GA is dying. No jobs. Why are there no jobs? Because nobody wants to live there. Why doesn't anyone want to live there? Because there are no jobs!
People follow economic opportunity. Governments then act as parasites on economic opportunity because they know as long as they just flock the sheep, and not slaughter it, it'll keep producing.