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NorthernRyland
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21 hours ago, wmlc said:
Because they didn't enforce it before, so they likely won't enforce it now.
Agreed however the new government may make an attempt, will they be able to pull it off? That remains to be seen. Any new governments in the future may try to tap this unexploited resource as well. It's always a looming threat but given there's no history here I agree now is not the time to panic.
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23 hours ago, atpeace said:
You seem extremely hostile and frustrated. Can you share how this new tax is going to impact you.
I'm from the USA with ample saving to live here until I die. I have interest income as well as investment income ( not much and many years I have a loss 😞 ). I'll get social security in the near future as well as private pension funds and some of that money will be sent to Thailand to fund my retirement.
What's your point? You have tons of money so why are we complaining about taxes? How about this, you pay your fair share since you like taxes and cover any pending taxes of us aseannow members. Then we'll stop complaining and bothering you.
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39 minutes ago, redwood1 said:Any one who thinks this is in any way fair is just a stupid sheep that deserves to be sheared....
My thoughts exactly. Some people are such pathetic chumps. Already spinning it their heads that they're doing the right thing and they think the rest of us should follow them off the cliff.
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2 hours ago, MeePeeMai said:
I don't usually listen to this guy but here he is doing a great rant on the subject and it seems that he's a bit pissed off about it too.
He's good on these topics because he questions the premise and authority unlike some of the browbeaten sheep posting here that believe they don't have a right to their own money.
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2 hours ago, Neeranam said:Why should foreigners be able to utilize Thailand's public services in the same way as Thai taxpayers?
I mean services like roads, public transport, education, etc.
the deal was we bring in money and spend it here and they let us use their roads and some public utilities like street lights. Very good deal for them. Everything else we pay for with imported cash. It's a much better deal than Thai's who spend already circulating money. We pay for 99% of the stuff we use anyways, we're not a burden by any stretch.
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13 minutes ago, cncltd1973 said:
you will see many reports of rape victims (many gang-raped, many underage) that identify their attackers by name but the police will do nothing about it. and many lesser crimes that the RTP can't be bothered to do anything about, either from laziness, fear or corruption. read the news everyday for 6 months and you will come to the same opinion
Exactly. If the police fail to do their job and you take the law into your own hands then the police will come after YOU.
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1 hour ago, sqwakvfr said:
Mainly because getting hired as a police officer is long and complicated. It can take from 6 months to a year to at least get to the police academy. It's not like McDonalds: Apply on Monday, get hired on Tuesay and quit on Wednesday. It took me 8 months from application to police academy. Then another year on probation to become a permanent employee. Most police officers in their first year are on their best behavior. I am strictly talking about how most US Police Departments hire officers. 1) Written test 2) Board Interview 3) Physical Agility Test 3) Medical Exam 4) Psych Exam 5) Polygraph test 6) Background investigation 7) Final Chief Interview 😎 Police Academy. Not so easy to quit after going through all that which is time consuming. All this that an applicant does is not compensated time. I do not know what the Thai Police hiring process is like.
still why does waiting mean you get to be corrupt if they don't pay you enough? doesn't follow.
Obvious answer is they get to hold power over others and this in itself is corrupting. I don't believe you could pay people enough to not become corrupt anyways.
Upright morals start at home anyways so the corruption in the Thai police form is a reflection of the Thai people themselves and how they raise their boys and view wider society. Thai's cower in front of authority but they don't respect the law in general.
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13 hours ago, AreYouGerman said:I know only a handful of countries who don't tax residents (ie. 183 days+ residency) on their worldwide income. It is common - as a resident of a country - that you pay tax on your worldwide income.
The difference is those countries actually let you live there and work. Thailand makes you report your location every 90 days like a criminal and you can't own property, need permission from immigration to open bank account etc... It's entirely flipping their old arrangement on its head, which is you come and spend your money here and we keep you on a short lease.
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20 hours ago, Watawattana said:So often I see the Thai Police being criticised for one thing or another, or rather for not doing one thing or another. But is it all their fault, or is there an issue further along the justice system?
They're horribly useless people and whatever pittance they get paid every month is surely too much considering that they do basically nothing.
Police in Thailand are like a cargo cult where they dress in police uniforms which they believe makes them police, when in reality they're just corrupt lazy men that have nothing to offer society. I think it's the people themselves who are poor quality. All I want them to do is keep law and order but that's way too much to ask.
They do however perform paperwork which is probably the most important part of the job. The times I've been in the police stations I see them sitting around filling out forms and other stuff. Since Thai's love to fill out paper forms maybe that's their benefit to society.
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20 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:In the 1980's the Miami Police Department was paying many of it's officers $18,000 to $21,000. Hence the corruption(fueled by the drug trade) was rampant.
Why is it only police people make this excuse for? In other professions if you get underpaid you just quit or do a bad job, not become corrupt and start stealing.
Police seem to attract the right personalities that will become corrupt naturally. Never heard of a cop in Thailand making so much money the need for corruption went away, in fact the opposite seems to be true.
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1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:
Whites in urban poor areas do join gangs.
Asians are relatively wealthy, but there are Asian gangs.
ok well you're brainwashed beyond help. You can see 90% of gangs in America are black and hispanic but focus on the 10%, who are the majority of the country.
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1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:
Your chart doesn't really support your argument.
What promotes gang membership is poverty, not immigration.
where are all the Asian immigrants in the gangs then? Where are the white rural poor? Gangs are a cultural problem and that chart clearly shows that.
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On 6/3/2024 at 7:33 PM, G_Money said:
You won’t read about this on CNN or MSNBC. Crickets!
America literally imports their gang crime problem. For non-Americans this is why the country has such high gun crime. Who would think importing people from crime ridden countries like Mexico with high rates of violence would have such outcomes. Shocking.
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6 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:sounds pretty much like a pyramid scheme. they always implode at some point
it's even stupider than that. They were literally just giving money to some women for nothing. Literally nothing, no land, no contract, no nothing. Imagine some women calls you one day and says pay me 10,000k/month for 10 years and you get some land and you agree and start sending money. That's basically what happened here it sounds like.
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1 hour ago, Chris Daley said:
How about you? Do you pay for land hundreds of miles away that you have never seen?
why is she paying rent on land she's never seen? Why would anyone ever buy land the haven't seen?
Funny actually some relative of my wife bought land in Chiang Mai too which he never saw first. When he went to finally see it they discovered it was a bog and didn't have any access so basically a scam. This explains why there's so much over priced land all over Chiang Mai though.
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1 hour ago, anterian said:An interesting comparison here between the media of two countries, Thai media makes a point of naming nationalities, British media make a point of not revealing nationality or ethnicity.
if there's a shooting in the US and the race is not mentioned by the media you know with absolute certainty the perp was non-white.
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1 hour ago, webfact said:Residents hope for a swift resolution to this disturbing episode, seeking to restore peace and normalcy in their once-tranquil neighbourhood.
sounds like this guy is trouble and needs to be gotten rid of entirely.
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23 minutes ago, Yagoda said:
Thats what I have been whining to them about for 5 months now. In my case, almost 10 years.
they started doing this to you too 5 months ago? Mine just started and if it goes on it's going to get boring fast.
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1 hour ago, TheAppletons said:
Was never a delay problem until WISE partnered with PLAID. What previously took a day now takes a week due to my account having been verified via micro-transactions.
WISE recently informed me that I could speed up my transfers by going into the settings of my account and obtaining "instant verification" for my credit union account. It appears that this is a process whereby WISE/PLAID will re-direct you to the log-in page of your bank/credit union and record your log-in for verification purposes. I have no intention of sharing my bank/credit union's log-in credentials with another entity so that's a non-starter for me.
interesting thanks for sharing. Why do they need to reverify the account via micro transactions? They already verified the account when I started using wise like 4 years ago! Great, so now we need to wait 7 days up from seconds. That's an appalling regression of service.
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Last time I used Wise it popped up some message like "my account was associated with micro-transactions" and it took 5 days to send following some verification. First time that ever happened and not sure if it will happen again. Same bank I always used so I don't know what's up. Maybe they're doing some changes to the system right now.
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5 hours ago, KhunLA said:
You do realize you are contradicting yourself.
As pointed out, can buy condos only. And I doubt many Thais are dumb enough to sign a 30 yr lease on house, when they can simply buy.
Wouldn't sign 30 yr lease for anywhere. TH is the only place I ever stayed at one locations for more than 3 years.
30 years is effective ownership if you're retired but I wonder if there's some way to transfer them. Otherwise the market for them would be limited. You know Thai people want to see houses to farang at inflated prices so there may be some way otherwise they wouldn't have all this public marketing.
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OK well I guess I got my answer. Targeting foreigners to purchase homes via a 30 year lease seems like a viable business. Retired people will be dead before then anyways so who cares and if the lease permits you can sell to another Thai, which makes it a viable investment for people of any age. If this is true I think the "foreigners can't buy homes" in Thailand narrative is greatly over stated.
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30 minutes ago, jvs said:
Yes nothing like your "own" place.
Basically my dream has come true here but i agree with posters about doing your home work before diving in.
sweet. Where is that?
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49 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:
A 30 year lease is legal.
A second 30 years as an option is also legal (or it was back in 2001). This gives 60 years.
Some developers have been known to offer 90 year leases. Not legal. 60 was the maximum.
The thing to remember with a lease that it is ONLY for the people included in the contact. The lease dies when they do.
I wonder if there are limits on who can issue these leases. Can you transfer the lease to another Thai citizen? If you can do that there are functionally no limits here. Most people don't live in a house for 30 years anyways so buying and selling means they can inflate the property market. Curious if that's what's happening now.
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are they really that unaware of what driving is like here? 1 day in and there would be a serious injury or death. This is on par with an obese person thinking they could win a marathon.