> It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker shock, but it’s rather brilliant on the part of the governments since everyone is pissed at Apple for

> It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker shock, but it’s rather brilliant on the part of the governments since everyone is pissed at Apple for overcharging, not thinking about whether VAT is a good idea. Oh, we're pissed at the government too... here in slovenia, we still have a "temporarily" higher VAT (literally called "crisis VAT") due to the 2008 economic crisis.