{"id":80891,"date":"2025-03-17T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=80891"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:49:05","slug":"only-in-vulgaria-and-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/03\/17\/only-in-vulgaria-and-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in Vulgaria and the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/03\/17\/callousness-and-an-age-of-indifference-is-rampant-and-we-will-pay-a-high-price-for-it\/#comment-1011230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentator MarP<\/a> on this site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Bill<\/a> has been introduced into Congress in the USA:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22-550x401.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22-550x401.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22-412x300.png 412w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22-1536x1120.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22-549x400.png 549w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-17-at-15.41.22.png 1896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The text is small, so let's be clear: this bill is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"legDetail\">The Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As is noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This bill authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland. The bill also renames Greenland as Red, White, and Blueland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can only imagine two countries where this might be possible. One is Vulgaria, the fictional European country in the story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was ruled by Baron Bomburst.<\/p>\n<p>The other is the USA, which is ruled by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>That is how absurd the world is becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned by commentator MarP on this site, this Bill has been introduced into Congress in the USA: The text is small, so let&#8217;s be<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/03\/17\/only-in-vulgaria-and-the-usa\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,14,203,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80893,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891\/revisions\/80893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}