TAXES!!!!!

As you all know it is currently income tax season here in the United States. Well I am living in New York State and just found out how much I have to pay them in comparison to the federal government. It is four times as much as the amount I have to pay the federal government. I am just curious why the state needs that much money. The federal government pays the troops, now has health-care, and many more tasks. The state has what? The highways and the power authority. I did not know that it cost more then what the federal government needs to take care of.