The cheerful, nattily dressed Englishman checking out at my hotel in Mykonos as I was checking in with my daughter looked shocked as he scrutinised his bill: ‘What’s the VAT? Twenty-four percent? How can that be?’
I instantly violated my pledge to my daughter not to embarrass her by talking politics on vacation.
John R. MacArthur
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