$200 tax? How old are you? Its not a tax. You just have to pay for the one you got before you can buy another. The iphone is subsidized. You bought a $500 phone for $200 down with the rest payed for over the duration of your contract. Try buying a car before you have paid for the one you already own. Grow up!
For your information, I am old enough not to be talked to like that by someone moron on the Internet.
Second of all, it’s done frequently in the wireless business. So they subsidize my SECOND iPhone purchase? The first was unsubsidized, the second one was...not my idea to give it to me at the cheaper price, it was theirs. Then you add to the fact that I AM PAYING MORE for the second in the long run (higher monthly data plan, no unlimited texting like the first gen iPhone). Also when you throw in the fact that I’ve been with AT&T since the early 1990s, yes, it is a tax to me.
And again, you don’t know me. So if you wish to continue talking in the future, I’d suggest you find some manners or shut the hell up!