NorthernRyland

I imagine the nominal tax rate is derived from total income and then applied to the imported amount, so again if you high a high enough income you could be liable for some % and that would be taxed on all imported money, like a premium on cost of living. Otherwise the figure you stated of 150,000 is less than most people import anyways, so who cares?

You're probably talking about money earned in Thailand right? What happens if you earn 200,000k/month in your home country and reside in Thailand 7 months out of the year (elite visa or marriage etc...). You now may have tax liability on money which was already taxed, but does it matter how much money you actually bring in to Thailand? That would be unacceptable obviously if they wanted some % of your 200k/baht even if you brought in 30k/month to the country.

So it's not enough you bring your money here and spend it, now the government wants to add an tax which in affect will make every single thing in the country X% more expensive depending on your tax obligation. The max amount was 35% right? That means if you earned US income and were taxed at 20% you would be responsible for another 15%, thus making Thailand 15% more expensive across the board? If this really goes through and the number is significant will Thailand even be affordable anymore?

but my point is people do this to themselves. If the Thai population was cut in half the outer regions of cities would collapse but the inner city would still be as congested as ever. At least there would be less traffic traveling in to the city. It's human nature to want to cluster together.

100% I come from a town with lots of cyclists and there is serious attitude with those people. I don't blame anyone to be honest. Sharing the roads sucks.

good then we agree. Actually if you ask people what they think about replacing Thai police with Japanese or British you'd be surprised that people may agree with you. Many Thai people know they have problems with road safety and police not doing their job.

We don't know what happened to him, may have been his fault. The point of the rant was to remind people how dangerous the roads are here as it was salient to do so

So you're publicly on the record siding with all the dangerous <deleted> drivers that get people killed? 🤦 Here's a better idea if you want to cuck out and be the white savior for Thai people why not take their side on something honorable instead. https://www.health.com/mind-body/health-diversity-inclusion/white-savior-complex#:~:text=The White savior complex%2C also,of color—community or person.

Yeah it looks bad for sure. How can you even buy the house if she already owns it and he can't own it himself? There's no transfer of property, just cash in to her bank.

by far the stupidest comment. Yeah I think I'm superior for wanting basic road safety. No Thai people want this, only arrogant farangs. How dare we.

Why do you want to buy the house in the first place? Unless it's something totally unique you can probably rent something similar. I understand in some rural areas renting anything of even basic quality is not possible so if you must there then buying makes sense I suppose.

Maybe Thailands rulers are the worst in the world but in daily life you never interact with them. Back in the West you will be interacting constantly with the government so who rules over you is extremely important.

I see the complete the opposite. Even in Thailand which is a country which many would say is over populated there is vast amounts of cheap land available to purchase. If people are so troubled with over population why aren't they moving to these areas? The answer is pretty simple, they WANT to live in the densely populated areas and in fact leave rural areas to live in big cities. Even in small cities people are found clustered together. So what really is the problem here? People want to live like this so what's the justification for saying its a problem for the 99%?

The death penalty is righteous. Remember the guy who butchered all those kids in Nong Bua Lam Phu? He should absolutely be killed. No justification for keeping him alive. Bring back public hangings for these scumbags.

it's an existential crisis at this point. Did you ever see the videos of the immigrant prime ministers of Scotland and now Ireland standing in parliament and complaining there are too many white people in government? They're literally importing their replacements and will lose total control of their governments once they become minorities.

Since when do Thai people care about such things? this happens all day every day.

The Thai people seemed to encroached upon a number of regions including Lao, Cambodia and Myanmar. It's all fuzzy but the longer I'm here the more I can really pick apart the different groups.

Exactly, rural areas with community are surviving, I see that too. They will be the ones to carry forward the people once the cities depopulate and fall apart, then the cycle continues I guess.

They said 3 decades ago many similar things would happen. You can look a historic photos of coastline and compare them to Google maps today and they appear the same to me. Yeah oceans rise but the estimates are wildly off and probably just propaganda to get people to accept carbon taxes or whatever else they have in mind. I simply don't believe them anymore.

That's crazy I did not know. OK then that explains part of the problem. That debt needs to be cleared so people can actually live normal lives. This is the end game of debt based money and central banking. It's strangling out entire nations will to live. Japan WILL survive because the people will survive. When Japan recovers from this debt and families stabilize many countries in Europe are at real risk of being under rule by Muslims and it's going to be the current Israel conflict on steroids. Japan will have the last laugh in the end.

Doomed how? The west will literally not be the same country so what survives in the end? The country is the people themselves and if they're replaced then everything is lost.

Yes but not Thai. Thai is an ethnic group with common lineage right? I personally don't consider them Thai myself.

Then everyone dies in the end. Women can either work for a company and have no family or work for their family and continue the nation. What's happening now is not sustainable and will course correct naturally once the population is too small for urbanization and people go back to the land.

It's a civilized country with high standard of living. Housing prices falling are good for the future generations, you can't sustain a country on ever rising housing prices that require 40 years mortgages. Older people will be hurting though that's for sure and the debt can be defaulted on or paid back with inflated currency. Japan will do just fine.

Replacing 30 million Thais with Africans and Arabs sounds like a good way to boost GDP. I don't see how this could possibly go wrong.