States with a sales tax sting

This references work published by the Tax Foundation.   The perspective of this article is toward retirees.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/encore/2013/02/12/states-where-sales-taxes-sting-retirees/

If you are interested in seeing a list of the state rates try http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-and-local-sales-tax-rates-2013

Also an article from that site...http://taxfoundation.org/article/new-state-and-local-sales-tax-data-tax-foundation