Thais split over legal casino proposal, poll

[webfact]

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The latest poll showed that Thai opinion on opening a legal casino in Thailand is split.

 

This after many in the government and opposition were gung-ho about the idea.

 

PM Prayuth and DPM Prawit sat on the fence.

 

The NIDA poll asked 1,318 adults over the age of 18 from all social strata whether they wanted a legal casino or not.

 

46.51% said they did not citing that it would lead people astray, cause family problems and increase debt and crime.

 

21.5% agreed with the idea saying that it would mean tax for the country.

 

18.13% were broadly in favor.

 

10.32% not much.

 

93.7% said they had never been in a casino.

 

4.4% admitted they had, reported Daily News.  

 

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[law ling]

It's an issue for the Thais, and good luck to them.

 

A regulated casino, say for non-Thais only, is one thing ... a greater problem I think are the current unregulated "casinos" ... 

 

You're very hard pressed to even buy a lottery ticket here at its B80 face value - despite the PM promising to deal with it ... so how will regulation of casinos go?

[ThLT]

56.83% against vs. 

39.63% for

43.4% more are against. That's not "split." 

 

Edited December 13, 2021 by ThLT

[vandeventer]

1 hour ago, ThLT said:

56.83% against vs. 

39.63% for

43.4% more are against. That's not "split." 

 

It will go the governments way, no need to pretend that you care, it's just a very good way of raking in money anybody's money.

[BostonRob2]

If order Thais are split are they split pees?

Edited December 13, 2021 by BostonRob2
dumb

[Deserted]

They seem to like jumping over the border and gambling away in Cambodia and Laos, so I don't see why they shouldn't.

[roger101]

Posing the right question might make a difference. How about "Would you support a Casino if it was for Foreign Passport holders only ? "

[Davedub]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

citing that it would lead people astray, cause family problems and increase debt and crime

Based on the assumption that because it's illegal it doesn't happen already?

 

Anyone who wants to gamble can go gamble already. Under the current system, they also risk prosecution for gambling on top of 'family problems and increase debt and crime"

 

As with all prohibitions, education is the answer. Prohibition just drives activities underground and puts profits into criminal's hands; whether it's drugs, prostitution, gambling or alcohol, history bears this out.

Edited December 13, 2021 by Davedub

[ebean001]

i would like to see a casino in Thailand but it is probably a bad idea. Thais have been prevented from gambling. This adds pent up desires. way too many would go who would lose money they call aford. 

[BestB]

Poll is flawed because it’s missing 1 crucial question , which should of been do you understand the question.

 

i deal with Thai in Thai on daily basis and it’s insane on some days . 
 

petfect example , someone selling table with chairs on FB, I ask what is the size of the table , length and width , in response I get chairs are 1000 baht and table is 6000 baht

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

93.7% said they had never been in a casino.

The Thai on the street has no need for a casino, they like the system as it is now, they have plenty of opportunities and avenues to gamble with whatever means they have.

Casino's are for the elite and well heeled only.

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, law ling said:

It's an issue for the Thais, and good luck to them.

 

A regulated casino, say for non-Thais only, is one thing ... a greater problem I think are the current unregulated "casinos" ... 

 

You're very hard pressed to even buy a lottery ticket here at its B80 face value - despite the PM promising to deal with it ... so how will regulation of casinos go?

Very badly...

[Confuscious]

Why pretending to be the Holy Spirit?

 

A few houses next to my house is an organised, illegal Casino, which is frequented every Wednesday by the Mair and the local police and everybody in town knows about  this place.

Same as: "Thailand has no prostitutes" but is full with bars, glassbowl massages and other places where people can have sex.

[mjakob007]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

PM Prayuth and DPM Prawit sat on the fence

as always, until the majority is decided

[bkkcanuck8]

Perfect timing to consider it... /s

 

China is really cracking down on the junket business - and gaming revenues in Macau will likely lose half their revenue (or more) as business from China dries up... 

 

The question is who are the Casinos for (in Singapore they have a levy to discourage locals gaming - $100 to $150 / 24 hr or I think $2000 to $3000 annually (foreigners that are not residents - i.e. visitors can enter free)? 

 

I visited Casinos with a group of co-workers in the US regularly while I was in San Diego, and I was disciplined and usually left the Casino with more money than when I entered (but not enough of a profit to make a profession of it)...  I have seen one co-worker literally lose it (i.e. loss of logic when losing, bet more to win it back)... and we had to drag that person out (at that point the rest of us decided it would be best not to continue to make it an regular event anymore). 

 

That said, I don't think it should be legalized at this time -- as too many locals already have issues with gambling, and the big foreign junket market from China (for foreigners) is being hit... so I don't see the benefits outweighing the risks at this time. 

[wombat]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

 1,318 adults 

i bet out of a population of 57 million, does not make this a poll worth anything.

[thailand49]

If the post is correct pretty much confirms my thinking 93% of the population are too poor to leave the country and that is why they should never open one in Thailand those 93% many can't handle playing the lottery for 100 baht, can you imagine giving them access to a slot machine?????

[snowgard]

Best of this poll is that around 42.57% of all voters havo no income or not more as 10.000THB!!!

21.02% had no income

21.55 percent average monthly income did not exceed 10,000 baht

25.49% average monthly income 10,001-20,000 baht

8.88% average monthly income 20,001-30,000 baht

5.69% average monthly income 30,001-40,000 baht and average monthly income 40,001 baht or more in the same proportion and

11.68% without specifying income

https://nidapoll.nida.ac.th/survey_detail?survey_id=534

[Mike k]

Just under 2000 were asked out of approximately 70 million what kind of poll is that 

[bkkcanuck8]

13 hours ago, Mike k said:

Just under 2000 were asked out of approximately 70 million what kind of poll is that 

That is well within the norm for polling, yet polling can be very accurate -- depending on making sure that the sample size is representative.