VA nickle and dimes us to death. Car tax, property tax, own a boat, get a boat tax, registrations, income taxes, big time usage taxes for a lot of things, and over the last three or four years the governers have raped the colleges and seen tutition go up about 50% at least. Not sure it's as bad as NYS, but we also have to pay for garbage which used to be free when I was in NY. Also counties pretty much double any taxes on prepared foods/restaurants so that i higher then NYS.