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1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

So if I am not in a province for more than 24 hours I don't have to do a TM30?So if I drive from Yasothon and stay overnight in three separate provinces but for less than 24 hours then stay in Bangkok overnight again for less than  24hrs then three more provinces provinces on the way back to Yasothon Then I don't have to report to immigration?

    My point is if someone only stays one night at a hotel they are rarely there for 24hrs therefore the hotel or residence doesn't need to report.

    Is this correct according to the law?

C'mon man; do you want to spend the rest of your life staring at your watch and jumping through hoops no one actually cares about anyway, other than to control you?

27 minutes ago, Guitarzan said:

Who pays corporate Taxes, Capitol gains tax, and other as you say government revenue streams?  The common people do. They buy stuff from corporations, the bill gets handed down to the middle class tax payers. Some how you think their is some magical pot of money some where only the rich posses? You tax corporations and the rich you are just passing the buck on to the middle class. 

 

This class war fare is the old communist tactic. Unfortunately it works. It’s human nature to hate people with more stuff than you, and human nature to want to take it from them. 

If corporations actually INVESTED in their companies they'd be paying less taxes. Capital invetment is tax deductible. Instead they are bidding up their share price with buybacks. I remember when smart companies bought their stock back when it was below intrinsic value. Not so anymore. They buy it back at whatever price to make next quarter's earnings number and hope the reckoning doesn't come before the current management team gets their golden parachute.

20 minutes ago, Guitarzan said:

 

This class war fare is the old communist tactic. Unfortunately it works. It’s human nature to hate people with more stuff than you, and human nature to want to take it from them. 

It's becoming increasingly clear that that is not a one way street. I've been watching the class warfare against the middle class for many years now. Don't tell me you haven't seen it. The numbers don't lie. Economic mobility in the US has done a 180 degree turn. Instead of lower income people becoming middle classand middle class becoming upwarly mobile, what's happening is that more and more middle class are joining the ranks of the lower income class. Nobody feels any sense of stability except the most affluent. Even they are distressed, in polls showing $5 Million isn't that much anymore.

Anyhow, I missed the first debate, but figure Warren and Sanders would pull away, which I think they did.  

I did watch the second debate and the thing that struck me was that the leaders in the polls at this debate looked like the people I'd be least likely to support.

I thought several of the "also rans" were smart, clear and had bold proposals that I think are achievable. Something that the US used to be great at, before we let the monied interests divide us and we turned on each other.

1 minute ago, BobBKK said:

The point is that it would virtually wipe out those money grabbing Ins companies, bleed the tax coffers dry and everyone would have to pay into the scheme. I'm not saying it's not a good thing I'm saying none of those weak willed Dems will, or could, do it. It would be such a gigantic change that I just don't see it happening. One of the biggest weaknesses of the NHS is medical free tourism and USA would be over-run with even more illegal immigrants wanting free health care. Chaos!

I'm guessing you never accomplished much in your life. Life is full of obstacles. The best of us take them on and overcome them if at all possible. What we don't do is live a life of fear.

On 7/29/2019 at 5:39 PM, edwinchester said:

"We grieve for their families, and we ask that God will comfort them with his overflowing mercy and grace,"

 

Somebody usually so incoherent and lacking empathy obviously employed a scriptwriter this time.

I'm surprised he didn't spontaneously combust.

4 minutes ago, steve654 said:

You're  saying that if one enters Thailand "legally", then no need for the 24 hour report? If so, what is all the fuss about then?

And even more humorously, someone who crossed an international border illegally will be filling out a form to let the authorities know just where they can find them. No, I don't think so.

49 minutes ago, WeekendRaider said:

a Thai educational economist.  that's perfect! 

the teacher is the solution.  not reading.  not student's discussing and thinking.  not just coding up a simple "hello world!" program and then going off on your own like Woz, Zuck, Gates and Musk [who are just as famous as avid book and journal readers than as being billionaires? hello?] and a few tens of millions of my generation did in the USA.  no.  we need more better and better teachers.  and money and benefits for teachers.  that will solve the problem!

yet decentralization for instance has not been a topic since....... and which would be tons better than teaching C++ as a 3rd language and English as a 4th language.... and as for English it is mostly written English and grammar because it is a lot easier to mark up multiple choice quizzes and call them final exams and then take off for a week or two earlier..... but decentralization, yeah I know it's a tongue twister.... jeeeez... has not even been much a topic since the same weekend protests started against...... oh, that is completely unrelated.  okay, I got it.  better and better teachers. 

 

insanity is defined as repeating the same thing over and over again without any success as it is intended to play out.  but we are not any better in the west.  need an example?  it's about "fossil fuels".  not air travel and tourism which we divide by all 7,800 million of us so that it's "only 2 percent"..... but that is not how social and political things work.  but economist experts, the world over, must use numbers and charts to say what they want to say. our scientists too.  it is one planet, so we divide by all 7,800 million of us.  but that is not...... reality.  how the "real world" works.  yet if you do any serious reading on your own, you can discover what is and is not nonsense.  on your own.  and that is where the culture thing comes in, yes? 

 

The most important lessons learned in Thai schools are Kreng Jai and how to graap (pay obesiance)

3 hours ago, zydeco said:

Or they will require you to report in person, instead of mailing or online registration, to your nearest immigration office to fill out the TM 30 within 6 hours, instead of 24, of deplaning and up the fine to 4000 baht.

What if you have to fill out another TM30 when you return home because the Immigration Office was not nearby and you needed to spend the night?

18 minutes ago, inalyat said:

Agree and have signed it. 

The reporting rule is ridiculous and serves no purpose. The visas to stay are irrelevant and in some circumstances not covered or applicable. Example, I was married to a thai woman (before she fleeced me and had numerous affairs with Thai boyfriend, but now I digress) to who e I have 2 children aged 6/7. As we are divorced she was awarded her full custody due to my international work. Therefore I was not eligible to enter thailand and stay despite still be fully financially supportive to my children. A long and costly court battle ensued, I was eventually awarded “joint custody” and I be my children with me from after school Friday’s until school starts again Monday or longer if there are holidays.

despite having joint custody, I still can not get a visa without having to leave the country every 90 days (and if I don’t have a multi entry which is hard to get as the rules change at every location and always missing some documentation). This is an out dated rule that serves no purpose for the people trying to support family’s to ensure children grow up knowing their parents are good people. U fortunately the burden this rule puts on people like me gets to the point where I can’t see or support my kids because the thai government is making it impossible to do. 

In Australia on the other hand, if I had a spouse (marriage) visa for my wife, even after we are divorced she is entitled to stay, work, get government Medicare, and not have to report at any location no matter where or how long she stays. Simply she is then treated the same as an Australian citizen. Simple, it works and there are no discussions ever about treating foreigners unfair, particularly when family and children are involved.

 

my (long and drawn out argument) 2 cents worth. 

 

Either way, you now have 1 more signature on the petition. 

Is that an "O" visa for support of a dependent child?  You are made to exit the country every 90 days? I thought the requirements were m/l the same as a marriage visa.

https://awbiz.com/thai-child-support-visa/

6 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Really? Lots of suddenly rich string theorists out there?

Lots of employed phycisists and graduate assistants anyway.

1 minute ago, bristolboy said:

I don't know that it's the next logical step. But I don't see that it makes a difference. It's all about perception of risk, And actually that's been the situation in Germany, It's has had no problems attracting investors despite its negative bond rate.  Also the fact that because of tax cuts to the wealthy, banks and big time investors have so much money that they have to put it somewhere. They're certainly not putting more of it into productive investments.

That's true in a recession or as a hedging mechanism, but of course it only applies to the ultra wealthy or otherwise huge pockets of capital. It reinforces the inequitable distribution of wealth.

18 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Precisely. Not in a vacuum. And the determining factor is the inflation rate in the economy. The lower the inflation level, the lower the bond rate.

What's more, QE kind of contradicts what you claim. The Feds lowered the rate beyond what it normally should have been to encourage banks to get out of bonds and start lending to business. Doesn't work nearly as well as fiscal stimulus but it does help.

How does the spread work if rates go negative; which is the next logical(?) step in a Fed driven economy.

23 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Where'd you get the from? Is there any economist who believes that. Especially considering that rates are set by government. That sounds like a maxim of the one percent. No. Deflation in goods and services is what counts. That's what tells you that the level of demand is way too low.

Rates are proffered by government and they may or may not be subscribed to. The truth though is that rates in affect are proscribed by the market at any given time. The government does not tender bonds in a vacuum.

Absolutely possible, but certainly not a typical MO of US students abroad in Europe. May justice be served whatever happened.

19 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Wrong. I and virtually all economists would agree that if it's to be effective, inflation should be low or there should be deflation.  That's the consideration that counts. Not deficit levels.

The only deflation that matters is deflation in bond rates.

1 hour ago, bristolboy said:

Given the Trump adminstration's record so far the EPA, it's pretty close to a sure thing that it would roll over and let Rusal scratch it's belly. If it were to be stopped, more likely it would be the courts which have consistently ruled against the EPA.

Yeah, that's possible, even likely.  But maybe not forever if he gets a second term. Still, the Tort lawyers will feast on whatever happens in a decade or two.

1 minute ago, bristolboy said:

So there's no such thing as some sources being more authorative than others? It means nothing when the vast majority of highly qualified experts disagree with the one you like? How exactly did your experience in whatever part of the world you live in reveal to you that the countercyclical spending was ineffective? Do you live in some sort of data driven device that comes to these conclusions?

I have said I think countercyclical spending IS effective, given a balanced budget baseline. It's even effectice if you're piling deficits upon deficits until you reach a limit. I don't know what that limit is and neither do you.

1 minute ago, bristolboy said:

And here's a link critiquing a particularly ludicrous work of Dupor's.

https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/05/distrusted-aggregators-department.html

Because I live in this world I know these things just from that experience. I post links for people like you that doesn't want to believe anything unless someone on the internet agrees with it. I've got news for you. Someoneone on the internet agreeswith anything you can think of, like the link you've just posted.

5 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Oh please. Another intellectual corruption theorist. And climatologists only come up with the results they do because of the money. Anyway, most of them work for universities. Several are Nobel prize winners. I guess they were only in it for the Nobel money.

And doesn't that economist you cited work for the government? Can't be much of an economist if he doesn't know what side his bread is buttered on.

I don't know about climatoloigists, but I think string theorists probably went along with whatever was paying at the time.

14 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Because I'm not the only one reading this post. And you told posters that they could look it up for themselves.

And since you acknowledge we've had this conversation before, why is it that you repeatedly ignore the fact that the world's leading economists overwhelmingly disagree with that guy at the St. Louis Fed? Cherry picking much?

OK, here's a link to some of the articles. There are lots more.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/dupor/frp/

6 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Because I'm not the only one reading this post. And you told posters that they could look it up for themselves.

And since you acknowledge we've had this conversation before, why is it that you repeatedly ignore the fact that the world's leading economists overwhelmingly disagree with that guy at the St. Louis Fed? Cherry picking much?

I think many of the world's leading economists either work for a government in power or an investment bank, so they've got vested interests in the positions they hold. You could even say they were hired to hold certain positions.