Yellowtail

6 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Sorry I don;t watched cable television channels that being exposed for lying. 

Is there a news outlet of any kind that has not been exposed for lying? 

17 minutes ago, sambum said:

 

Sorry, but you miss the point which I regrettably did not make clearer.

 

I was alluding to the Thai Government supposedly wanting me to pay tax on my pension that has already beEn taxed in the UK.

 

Apologies for any misunderstanding!

It's even worse in the US. In the US, when I earn money, it is taxed. If I save that money, it is taxed again. If I spend the money I have saved, it is taxed again.  

1 hour ago, JensenZ said:

In this case, imported items under 1500 baht have not been taxed.  

 

I frequently buy products from iHerb. It is duty and tax-free if it's below 1500 baht, but I often order much higher, from 2000 to 3000 baht and haven't had to pay tax. I've only been hit with duty and tax on 2 parcels in over 10 years. They let most slip through, but when they stop a parcel, you have to pay tax on the full amount (including shipping), not just the amount over the 1500 baht limit.

 

A 7% tax on a 1500 parcel is peanuts, but when I have to pay tax and duty I need to make a 16km round trip to the mail centre where they hold the parcel for payment. Can you imagine the back log of parcels awaiting tax payment at mail centres around the country?

Correct. The actual cost generally is: Cost + Freight + Tax 1 + Tax 2 = Landed Cost

(Cost + Freight) X Duty  =  Tax 1

(Cost + Freight + Tax 1) X VAT = Tax 2

1 minute ago, sambum said:

Yes, in certain circumstances - like trying to collect taxes on monies that have already been taxed?

(Which may or may not be just hearsay!)

What're you a right-winger? You make an argument that VAT should be eliminated altogether (which I would support, because it is hideously regressive), but in this case it's just the same 7% you'd have to pay if you bought the item domestically, and you are still avoiding the import duty. 

It's "social engineering". The gub-ment wants you to buy domestically produced products, which helps the county and disproportionally the poor. When you import otherwise taxable products, you not only avoid paying the tax, but you also negatively impact the importer.

I have a blue arrow, does that mean I'm communist?

1 minute ago, scottiejohn said:

Cheapskate!

Just over 1P!

On every, single, monetary, transaction. 

"Waste not, want not." 

3 hours ago, digger70 said:

Isn't it Always about the Money. (greed)

They will keep on looking to find ways to skin the people about their money being that the natives or foreigners.

So, collecting taxes is greed? 

So, every time you pay, it will round up, and every time you collect it will round down. 

No thanks.

6 minutes ago, Presto said:

Do your own work. Or don't.

Typical leftist, thanks. 

4 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

This electric bike was hit by a pick up this afternoon, in Rayong. bike suffered severe damage, slight in two, but no fire. Both on the bike seriously injuried.

So, it is possible for an EV to be involved in an accident and not have a fire. 

3 minutes ago, Presto said:

I'm confused now. By you. I keep hearing from American politicians that America is the greatest democracy in history, the greatest democracy on earth, if not the universe.

So what is it?

Really? I've never heard that, do you have a source? 

57 minutes ago, Presto said:

A question from a non-American. Why is so much power given to one elected politician (who may have been voted in by just thousands of his constituents), simply because he/she is the Speaker of the House?

In this position you can refuse to bring proposals, or legislation, to the vote. Simply because you don't like it, or that guy from Mar a Lardo doesn't like it. Or your wife. Or the Bible commands you not to do it. Anything!

It seems very anti-democratic, very archaic. And that quaint anti-democratic system is kept in place by both parties, of course. Because it gives them the opportunity to complain and whine about the other party: gridlock! the chaos Congress !, instead of just bringing legislation to a vote, and then pass it or not pass it.

Because it is a republic, not a pure democracy. Representative government, one of our biggest mistakes was the 17th amendment. 

Most of the time, gridlock is the best thing that can happen. 

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Chachoengsao

12 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I live in Thailand and so don't watch CNN enough to form an opinion of Fareed Zakaria.

Who do you watch such that you have been able to form an opinion? 

On 5/11/2024 at 10:24 AM, Marcous said:

Don't know if it's been mentioned before but watched ' Hardcore Henry (2015)' and quite enjoyed it.

 

Something a little different, filmed from a first-person perspective.  Sharlto Copley's cockney accent was a bit dodgy though.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3072482/

 

 

 

A "little different" indeed. I liked it. 

13 minutes ago, curtklay said:

Thai hot dogs are putrid. Nathan's and Hebrew National are the only ones I will eat, but have never found here. 

try Gourmet Market, I think they have both. 

IMO, Nathans are way over-rated. 

11 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

There's two ways of looking at his comments:

 

1) The prosecutors are simply out to get Trump for political reasons, or

 

2) If Trump had not been elected in 2016, none of these facts would have been publicly known, and Trump would not have been indicted.

 

 

I meant do you trust his opinion, generally? 

I think the prosecutors are simply out to get Trump for political reasons. 

All the "facts" would have been known whether Trump had been reelected or not, and Biden would still have all his classifies documents.

I miss the dogs that used to have at Jiffy, loaded up with chopped onions, great quick bite on the road. 

My boy loves decent sausage, and he's in Germany this week so he's having a hay-day! 

They have these at Villa and Tops, and often buy-one-get one when close to expiry. 

6 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

I didn't think that you would know who he is... 

If you say, he'll pull up a hundred examples of how he has attacked Trump. 

"Even a blind hog gets an acorn every now and then." 

13 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Is Zakaria someone whose opinion you trust?

Do you trust his opinion? 

11 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Supposedly, the prosecution will call Michael Cohen tomorrow.

 

Unlike many, I don't think he will be a good witness, because he will tell the truth. Unfortunately, he will have to admit that Trump's orders to him were not explicit, they were in code.

 

So rather than Trump telling Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels, Cohen will testify that Trump told him to "take care of it".

 

A normal person will listen to Cohen's testimony and understand the criminal nature of Trump's orders, but some people will claim that Cohen's testimony exonerates Trump. And maybe one juror won't have the mental capacity to connect the dots.

And what is the "criminal nature" of Trump's orders? 

How is paying someone to keep quiet illegal? 

Yeah, I agree, the jurors really need to "connect the dots" to GET Trump. 

29 minutes ago, stevenl said:

So in a Trump topic you're complaining about people talking about Trump.

No, not at all. 

9 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

It is actually not that simple.

 

Did native kids get sent to residential schools? Of course. Usually for two reasons. One, there was no school in their community (usually due to isolation) and two, the parents requested/approved.  Most native children were in the first case. In the second, attendance was not compulsory until well into the 1920s. Even then, a lot of kids simply didn't attend school at all. So these lurid images of evil priests canoeing through the Canadian wilderness, hunting down screaming native children, are utterly ridiculous. 

 

As for the schools themselves, did abuse occur? Of course, and should be revealed and reviled. Was assimilation the goal? Again of course. At the time, it was thought to be the best technique to bring the natives out of savagery and integrate them into Canadian society. Today we know better. But a century ago, no. 

The left has to stop assimilation at all cost, divide and concur.