If you don’t like sales taxes, go to your representatives in your state and get them to repeal the sales taxes.
But government does need SOME money to operate, and they have to get it from the citizens somehow. If not a sales tax, then an income tax, or a property tax, or a gas tax, or some other tax.
If there is going to be a sales tax, it should apply to like goods no matter where they are purchased, otherwise there is a disparity in misery.
Define SOME money. State and local governments used to operate on a total tax rate that comprised a much smaller portion of GSP than they do today and things were just fine. When I started working, city income tax in my community was 1% - they are now at 2.5% in that city and they still want more. Property taxes have increased at twice the rate of inflation. And the sales tax rate in that state has risen as well.
Look at the rate of inflation, and then look at the rate of change of tax collections and you'll see that government has increased its collection at a much higher rate.
Yes, states need some money to operate. But they're well above the level of taxation required for basic services now, and they would love to take more.