I am from NJ, and some of us do mind. This tax is from a governor who, when campaigning, would give out the standard line, "I have no plans for any new taxes." Once in office, he suddenly discovered that there was a big problem that he didn't notice before, and that a raft of new and heavier taxes was the only solution.
Every Democrat governor since Brendan Byrne has done the same thing, and the only Republican governor, old Tom Kane, spent state funds like a crazed RINO. We have had no good statewide politicians in office for decades.
As far as I can tell, they are all the equivalent of crooks. They most resemble holdup men (in their tax policies), and pimps and prostitutes in their relationship to the gambling "industry" and the teachers' unions.
NJ, like many other sales-tax states (which is most of them), makes NO DISTINCTION between tangible gooods, and intangibles like services, or goods bought out of state. If you live in NJ, you must pay tax even on things you buy out-of-state: they are covered by an equivalent "use tax."
The idea is, that if you live here, you are like livestock owned by the state, and should be milked by your owners at their discretion. For this they pretend to educate your kids, and pretend to protect you against criminals. They also promise eventually to repair the roads someday.
It seems surrealistic, but when I was growing up here, NJ has no state sales tax, and no state income tax -- and yet the schools were better then than they are now. I am not hallucinating: that is the way it was. It would be nice if the electorate had a memory for history, because history gives us so many good examples of other ways of getting along, which are reasonable alternatives to the present system.