We spend winters in southern AL, the region we stay in has the HIGHEST sales tax in the US. (was 9%, they just voted to raise it to 10%) This is a total of state and local taxes.
All they are doing is hurting the local business, I know a lot of snowbirds make a trip to nearby FL once a month (sales tax about 5%) to stock up on groceries and other purchases.
They passed the increase by playing the school card, "Oh we need more money for the kids, boo hoo..." yeah right like the extra money is really going to improve the schools and not go into the administrators pockets.