Well....the awful roads come from zero state income tax, and the public has to make it off property and a sales tax. After being stationed there in 1980....I got smart and ID’ed the state as my home state, and for the remainder of my career....never paid any state income tax.
I admit....when you drive around the regions outside of Seattle and Tacoma....it just gets worse. When you get east of Mount Rainer...I wouldn’t be driving on any county or state road more than 45-mph (at least by what I observed in 1980).
Heh...I went to Nevada...no state income tax either...