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I don't think the soul free number crunchers have the capability at looking at the wider perspective. Take fine dining in Thailand for example. European where wine is so natural and even sometimes Thai. Such places generate revenue, taxes, and jobs for Thais. But consider the lost business of people just not going as often to such places BECAUSE the wine cost is so ridiculous it becomes a substandard experience if they cut out the wine or drink less of it, crappier quality, etc. Thaiiland sells itself internationally as one of the top foodie destinations in the world, especially Bangkok, and not only Thai food. Well, with wine priced as it is here, they are limiting themselves.

It's one thing ending the deficit. It's another thing adding additional TRILLIONS to the current deficit. That's Trump for you! The gift of incompetent destructive IDIOCY that keeps on giving.

Nothing of the kind. You're conflating left wing with all democrats. That is simply untrue.

Because he was running to be the democratic party nominee while not even being in the party and more people wanted to go center left. The USA is overall a center right country even with fascist Trump in power now, and the democratic party is still dominated by the center left.

Well, I have made it a hobby to follow retirement visa programs all over the world for over 20 years. I'm here to say that by no means is Thailand the only country that makes policy changes and it isn't the worse case either. So you really never know what you're getting yourself into wherever you move! The worse case that I recall is when Colombia used to have a "lifetime" visa and people had such stamps in their pasports and overnight they downgraded "lifetime" to five years.

What I did was change my finances in such a way that I had a few years to see how this actually shook out. Under the current rules, there are still definitely a lot of expats who are technically in a position of needing a TIN, filing, and paying.

I'm sure glad I didn't fork over 50K baht to Joe Schmoe "Fine" Taxation Advisors for a consultation! Think of all the people who have left Thailand or are spending over half the year outside Thailand to dodge a bullet that apparently isn't coming. Thailand -- never a null moment.

You mean the American left that loves Bernie Sanders?

Yes an alien species dependent on eye liner.

A totally insane trolling post.

Wine should not be a luxury.

His amoral narcissistic impulses combined with creeping mental deterioration as happened to his racist father are controlling him.

Yep.

Just words. Let's see ACTION!

Small self correction. That Trump clip posted was recent That doesn't change my message one bit though. Trump is still Putin's poodle unless and until.he actually DOES stuff to alter that narrative. To wit.

Some do. Being a Jew doesn't necessarily mean following Judaism. Santas aren't exactly about Christianity anyway!

Passport same day impossible. Maybe for an emergency travel passport if you've lost your passport. 6 to 8 weeks is the standard info but many reports of passport applications by mail turning around in a month. It's possible unfortunately that things might be slower now because of deep staff cuts at the state department.

A good summary of the new tax news so far.

Don't be absurd. Are you that dense that this old news fools you!?! It's just a game he occasionally plays for political cover because he knows the majority of Americans support Ukraine. If Trump was really ever to stop being Putin's poodle he would Ally with Europe to put on bone crashing sanctions on Russia including countries that buy Russian oil Commit to arming Ukraine to the point they could win when combined with Russia falling apart economically. Officially acknowledge that Putin doesn’t want peace or even a ceasefire. He only wants total surrender and/or total victory to erase Ukrainisn sovereignty.

So like Trump you appear to blame Ukraine for this. You know this was where Russia invaded Ukraine (starting in 2014).

Putin uses nuclear threats to neuter weak minded westerners.

You would have said opponents to Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were narrow minded.

Yeah. I consider him a traitor. But really these are different topics. Trump's perverted alliance with Putin vs. Trump's attempt to be the American equivalent of Putin in his own regime.

There have been so many ways and words to try to describe the absolute FACT that the Trump/Maga regime 2.0 is some kind of flavor of extremely corrupt anti-democratic authoritarianism. Has Garry Kasparov come up with the best fitting word yet?

The ugly bill adds trillions to the debt.