10,000-Baht Digital Wallet For Each Thai Pledged In Pheu Thai Campaign

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10,000-Baht Digital Wallet For Each Thai Pledged In Pheu Thai Campaign

 

Pheu Thai partisan contestants for prime minister, from left, Settha Taweesin, Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Chaikasem Nitisiri, campaigning in Bangkok this week. Photo: Matichon

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

THE PHEU THAI today (Apr.5) announced a major populist policy to hand out 10,000 baht in digital wallet for each of all Thai adolescents and adults only if the party becomes government after the May 14 general election.

 

Real estate tycoon Settha Taweesin, one of a trio of Pheu Thai partisan contestants for prime minister, confirmed to a cheering audience in a campaign venue that each of the Thai people aged 16 years and over will be given 10,000 baht in digital wallet to spend within six months if the Pheu Thai wins the chance to run the country after the nationwide election.

 

The 10,000-baht digital wallet will be provided by a Pheu Thai government for use by each of the Thais to buy goods and services at stores and shops in a radius of four kilometres from their census-registered house within six months, according to Settha.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/04/05/10000-baht-digital-wallet-for-each-thai-pledged-in-pheu-thai-campaign/

 

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[CharlieKo]

Buying the Vote!

[OneMoreFarang]

Why not 100,000? And why not a refill every month?

After all, it's other peoples' money. Give it away!

 

And why? Does it make any sense? Can Thailand afford it?

Or is it: We promise everything so that people vote for us so that the criminal fugitive will be in control again. And then he will have his revenge and he will make himself and his family even richer.

 

Does that make any sense for Thais and Thailand? No. But will the uneducated masses vote again for populist policies? Of course.

[John Drake]

What if there is nothing there within 4km?

Edited April 5, 2023 by John Drake

[2baht]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Does that make any sense for Thais and Thailand?

Does anything? ????

[digger70]

Wow ,Straight out Buying votes, who's next and how much are they paying.

Isn't this Legal corruption?  

 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

THE PHEU THAI today (Apr.5) announced a major populist policy to hand out 10,000 baht in digital wallet for each of all Thai adolescents and adults only if the party becomes government after the May 14 general election.

Sailing a bit close to the wind with that policy, could be mis-construed as vote buying.

[2baht]

3 hours ago, CharlieKo said:

Buying the Vote!

Blatant!

[JayClay]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

After all, it's other peoples' money. Give it away!

That's the point of having taxes, yes.

 

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Can Thailand afford it?

I haven't done the maths but my gut feeling is yes, Thailand can easily afford it.

[Damrongsak]

My vote is worth one million Baht!  And I have a way of voting 20 times. So what if I'm a foreigner, I'll play.

 

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Why not 100,000? And why not a refill every month?

After all, it's other peoples' money. Give it away!

 

And why? Does it make any sense? Can Thailand afford it?

Or is it: We promise everything so that people vote for us so that the criminal fugitive will be in control again. And then he will have his revenge and he will make himself and his family even richer.

 

Does that make any sense for Thais and Thailand? No. But will the uneducated masses vote again for populist policies? Of course.

Well once they have bought the vote they are in power for many years and different forms of funding will be made through different programs, no need to re-fill the digital wallet anymore.  Corruption is number one in Thailand.

[2baht]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Well once they have bought the vote they are in power for many years

The army may have a different view as history shows!

[sammieuk1]

Down payments of 300bt on polling day by all party's will of course be unaffected ????  

[Artisi]

25 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Sailing a bit close to the wind with that policy, could be mis-construed as vote buying.

How could you even consider for one moment this could be vote buying ????

 

28 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

 

 

[phetphet]

3 hours ago, CharlieKo said:

Buying the Vote!

Blatently! Not even bothering to hide it now. And who will pay for it?

 

Come on Prayut. Can't you up it to 15,000? ????

Edited April 6, 2023 by phetphet

[flexomike]

22 minutes ago, JayClay said:

That's the point of having taxes, yes.

 

I haven't done the maths but my gut feeling is yes, Thailand can easily afford it.

lets just say 40 million Thais are 16 or over, this would be 400,000,000,000 baht , about 12,000,000,000 US dollars, no small amount,

[rwill]

That's what they say before the election.  After the election they hope everyone forgets about it and if pressed on it just say 'the law doesn't actually allow us to do that'

[OneMoreFarang]

28 minutes ago, JayClay said:

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

After all, it's other peoples' money. Give it away!

That's the point of having taxes, yes.

No, tax should be used wisely, not just given away to buy votes. 

[zzaa09]

41 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Sailing a bit close to the wind with that policy, could be mis-construed as vote buying.

Ya think? 

...and the Thai media almost celebrates in it's complete numbness of what this is...or what it appears to be.

Whatever happened to challenging and questioning within the hallowed hall of journalism?

[zzaa09]

6 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No, tax should be used wisely, not just given away to buy votes. 

Wisely.....but in a very crooked manner.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Post election the new party members will receive an image of of an extended middle digit ten thousand times.

[JayClay]

30 minutes ago, flexomike said:

lets just say 40 million Thais are 16 or over, this would be 400,000,000,000 baht , about 12,000,000,000 US dollars, no small amount,

Okay that's one half of the equation.

 

How does that compare to the total amount of tax collected by the treasury each year?

[JayClay]

27 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No, tax should be used wisely, not just given away to buy votes. 

The government can do whatever they like with tax income. If you ask me it's better for a government to give 10,000bt indiscriminately to everyone, than just giving a load of tax breaks to the rich while continuing to **** the poor.

[RichardColeman]

10,000 baht ? Be all be gone in a month on  the latest phone, some alcohol and lottery tickets

[OneMoreFarang]

Just now, RichardColeman said:

10,000 baht ? Be all be gone in a month on  the latest phone, some alcohol and lottery tickets

That obviously doesn't matter. The only purpose is to the Thaksin back. And obviously he doesn't want to use his own money to buy the votes. 

[redwood1]

I am a slut I want to be bought....When will farangs get their 10,000...

[Dan O]

Is there any wonder that the country is in the condition it's in when blatant corruption by would be politicians is now published openly in the news for all to see while the average Thai family struggles to make ends meet. 

[madmitch]

I just wonder whether Pheu Thai may have shot themselves in the foot with this blatantly populist policy, which, as many have stated, is nothing but blatant vote buying, a ridiculous policy as the already rich would also qualify.

 

Fully expecting a complaint from other parties and possible request for party disslolution.

[mrfill]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

No, tax should be used wisely, not just given away to buy votes. 

Its much the same as promising to cut tax to provide people with more money. This way though means that using already collected money, the Thai GDP figure is boosted making the economy appear to be booming.

So just the usual smoke & mirrors....

[dinsdale]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The 10,000-baht digital wallet will be provided by a Pheu Thai government for use by each of the Thais to buy goods and services at stores and shops in a radius of four kilometres from their census-registered house within six months,

What shops and what stores? Must be thousands of villages that only have some mom and pop shops and a few 'restuatant' type places within a 4km radius.