Your single tone of hatred against Thais is starting to feel like you're a troll, but it's not exactly right because the angst seems personal as well.

Where are you from originally? Where are you living now? When and where did you live in Thailand? What personal experiences that you have with thailand?

Im super curious how someone could come to have the conclusions that you have.

Instead of accusations and judgements, just share with us a personal story. Share a story and we can come to a conclusion about thais ourselves.

Anyone play at Bodog88? Would be interested to hear thoughts about this room. Is it worth switching over from iPoker? It seems hard to find out information about rakeback/bonuses etc and i would appreciate any feedback.

Thank you.

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Interesting, thank you.

Tried asking him before about his story and he refuses to share. Troll confirmed, don't feed.

FYI he has the same kind of stories in the Cambodia thread and in the Philippines thread and probably elsewhere.

Plans for a new tourist visa which gives 90 days straight on entry, renewable twice to 270 days

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30394306

lol69 is gonna be livid

What happened to Phuket opening in October ?

Came to Krabi for a short holiday and it feels like a ghost town (especially at night) outside of the resort because most restaurants/shops/bars are closed.

Dont wanna get into the covid conspiracy rabbit hole but even if its as legit and deadly as media/governments believed back when it all started, cant imagine opening to tourism (and the infection wave that may bring) being worse for the majority of the people than this current state of things in a country so dependant on tourism.

Sheep are led to believe that there are only two options

1. keep it on lockdown. everyone who is financially stable will enjoy life as normal. everyone who lost jobs and revenue will slowly starve.

2. open it up so economy can flourish with downside that some may die. besides deaths, what about overwhelming hospitals? majority of people would be living in fear and will not be able to enjoy going to malls and other venues like they are now in thailand. the economy will tank anyways, and may tank even worse. those affected will also starve.

Given those two options, clearly option 1 is better for the whole.

There is a simple 3rd option: Keep it on lockdown, and provide aid to those affected. Simply tax 10% of the 0.1 percenters net worth, and you have all the funds you will ever need to help those affected, you'll even have left overs to build infrastructure, and even help out those that aren't starving to have better education and better lives for funsies.

very very few thai people will starve. the workers from hotels and tourist areas are already back home in the village living for free. there is always food in the village.

and no one can slowly starve as workers don't save money so once they lost their job they were broke right away probably.

congrats you just made every rich person leave the country and never come back and now your poor are starving even faster with 0% tax from the rich

They still get taxed 10%. They will have to renounce their citizenship.

Think of it as a club membership fee for a country passport.

Good luck selling all your businesses and real estate and getting citizenship in another country within 5 or 10 years.

The only reason the 3rd option is not happening is because the rich already control the government and media. Hence we come full circle, sheep believes only option 1 or 2 exists.

My thai motorbike license has expired today (2 years), I'm wondering if I need to fk around with all the medical cert etc paperwork, or if it's as easy as rocking up and paying some money and having it renewed? It's land transport office i need to go to right?

You need medical certificate and certificate of residence (issued at immigration for 500~ thb) plus passport photocopies and a recent passport type photo. Once you go to the office they take the documents, do the reaction test once more and you're good for another 5 years.

I did it a month ago and was out of the land and transport office in less than half an hour. That doesn't take into account the certificate of residence that in Chiang Mai at least is done in 24hs.

great, thank you

I've had a car and scooter here for 10 years and never had a license. I just take the random bribe to the police as a cost of doing business but I'm guessing Pattaya has more checkpoints than BKK.

I have a car driver's license, been stopped at least 10 times at random checkpoints, never asked for license. Paid a handful of tickets for riding bike without helmet in Samui and Hua Hin, never asked for license. I think you need to have one in order for your insurance pay out in case of accident tho.

If you dont have one in CM and drive a scooter daily you can expect to pay no less than 2k THB/month on fines, probably way more. Think Phuket is full of checkpoints as well, cant confirm, but when I was there last time got stopped twice in four days.

Yeh in patts I think it's definitely worth paying a few hundred baht to get it renewed for 5 years , they check license and green book all the fkn time (not so often lately because covid, but still got a 1k fine yesterday so prob should take care of it)

and why would they have to renounce citizenship? They will just move their business off shore, there have been countless examples of this in history.
You have just 2 options, tax the rich the amount its not worth for them to tax evade and make a lot of tax money, or try to screw with them and make way less.

The tax would be tied to the citizenship not where the rich's **** is located. Does that make sense? This way there will be less loopholes like how you described it.

btw any loopholes can be closed. period.
(the only reason loopholes are not closed is because guess what? the rich bought the gov already)

You may be bought into the manipulative narrative that we can't tax the rich, or maybe you're super rich yourself?

I'd say trying to fix govt corruption is probably the 1st thing that needs to be done before you start handing them more money.