1 April 2001
April Fool: the internet tax
The front-page ticker claims that all surfing will be taxed from 20 June and that a family of four will pay SEK 300 to 900 more a month. All of it made up.
I wrote it on a dull Sunday afternoon. It probably showed.
- The joke quoted both the Riksdag and a party leader, and invented a chair of the finance committee with an exotic name.
- Rick wrote the April Fool himself.