That's true Ollie. I have often wondered how much money some vehicles bring the state over their lifetime. We do have some questionable taxes, no tax if it's heated at home, but if it is cooked by a guy in a paper hat, it's taxed.
Oregon has no sales tax and hard surfaced roads. When I first went out there it was easy to see the difference, it was in income tax, when we came back home 13 years later the difference had disappeared.