PM Srettha: Legalise casinos to save Thailand’s economy

[Thingamabob]

5 hours ago, swerve said:

Thais have a serious gambling problem. Opening casinos will help nothing.

You have rather missed the point. Many Thais gamble underground all the time. Worth giving regulation a shot in my opinion.

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

And how long, prey tell Mr. PM, do you give this venture before the under world or other influential

figures will muscle in?...

I think you've got this wrong. They'll be there from the start and more than likely involved in the setting up and construction. Apart from that casinos are great washing machines.

Edited March 29 by dinsdale

[ezzra]

9 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

I think you've got this wrong. They'll be there from the start and more than likely involved in the setting up and construction. Apart from that casinos are great washing machines.

Possibly, but for all we know the PM just keeping up on his promises to certain people to repay them for helping him

get elected in the first place and continue support, Who knows, one thing i have learned over the years,

that in Thailand, is the land of everything is possible...

[Unclernie]

After gambling there is one more legalization left and then watch the coffers fill up. They just have to figure out a cheat proof system on how to collect from the service providers. 

[jvs]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

And how long, prey tell Mr. PM, do you give this venture before the under world or other influential

figures will muscle in?...

Don't worry ,they will be the ones in charge of organizing it.

[brianthainess]

 He has lost the plot, make it legal, well the lotto is legal yet there is still an underground one in every village, Thais are already in debt through gambling online, and at gambling dens, all this is local stuff, they are not going to travel to a Casino some already do to Cambodia though. The Loan Sharks will be happy though. This PM is a clown. He seems to have no Idea of village life. 

[wasabi]

In an era of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars (flying cars soon) Thailand wishes to open a casino. I think they should start with better education and a greater focus on intellectual rigor than casinos.

[AlexPattaya]

I think that Legal Casinos will definitely benefit the Thai Economy via the new Tax Revenues ! 

[Ben Zioner]

Schizophrenic government, flipflopping between we want tourist money, we hate foreigners. 

 

 

 

[Ben Zioner]

9 minutes ago, wasabi said:

In an era of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars (flying cars soon) Thailand wishes to open a casino. I think they should start with better education and a greater focus on intellectual rigor than casinos.

Indeed, I was disappointed by my Daughter Thai language Primary school exit score somewhere in the lower thirties, until I found out that she was just slightly above national average. 

 

While she scored a hundred in English. But 100% Internet English, better than nothing. 

[NanLaew]

7 hours ago, swerve said:

Thais have a serious gambling problem. Opening casinos will help nothing.

 

Asians have a serious gambling problem.

 

More sensible and mature Asian governments find ways to earn valuable income through tax revenues from legalised gambling, while preventing access and abuse by the locals.

 

At the moment, in Thailand, all illegal gambling is controlled by the RTP and certain social elites and I doubt this PM has the clout to change this.

[ikke1959]

Start woth modernizing the country .. Stop with all the conservatisch laws, open the doors , welcome people and businesses, stop with chasing foreigners, educate your people and stop corruption which can easily detected by the Revenue Department...  But you need balls for it instead of staying with the dinosaurs of the army based Government.. It all will do more good than gambling, That will not save the economy but will bring it further down as many people are already addicted to gambling..

[Purdey]

Brilliant.

1. Make casinos legal

2. Srettha's hotels to be a casinos

3. People gamble their money away

4. Land prices fall as debtors sell their land

5. Srettha and friends buy the cheap land and the circle starts again

[0ffshore360]

If such suggested "legal " casinos were of the type and scale of those just across the borders to Cambodia or Myanmar then quite possibly very large  amounts of Thai bht will stop exiting Thailand. That may not be popular with the investors in those neighbouring domains. The internal illegal enterprises might suffer a bit but most of the "local" gambling is small scale although prolific. High rollers are few but debts are many and large !

[klauskunkel]

Gambling to the rescue! Anything to save the economy!

Anything, except eradicating systemic corruption in government, industry and society, nepotism and bribery spawning inept decision makers who compound failure...

Yes, gambling is much easier to implement than changing ones nature, but... once established and integrated into a corrupt system, gambling won't do much to help the economy, it will help certain individuals who control, legislate and cover up. Then something else will have to save the economy, again, and be corrupted, again.

You will run out of things to pin your hope on! And then what? A war? With those Generals? 

[digger70]

PM Srettha: Legalise casinos to save Thailand’s economy.

 

What a Fruit cake , Thais are Born gamblers and corrupters there's no hope for this country if they legalize  casinos /gambling.

[Trippy]

It would be nice if they opened legal poker rooms. 

[quake]

6 minutes ago, Trippy said:

It would be nice if they opened legal poker rooms. 

 

Well we do have the Poke-her,  rooms down soi 6.

always a nice afternoon out. 

 

 

 

Edited March 29 by quake

[Rampant Rabbit]

Huh the dumb and  gullible will be in even more debt when legalised

[Srikcir]

"Legalise casinos to save Thailand’s economy"

It saved economies for small sovereign, autonomous and semi-autonomous areas like Native American tribes, Monaco and regional areas in Southern Africa. But for a developed and populous nation like Thailand the economy is much more complex, ie., international trade relations.

 

Casinos can more quickly fuel a lagging economy within a relatively short period than FTA's for example, albeit developing strong anti-corruption oversight organizations of Thai casinos might lag. Foreign-based experience should assist to establish such organizations. 

 

Thus, legalizing casinos in Thailand will BOOST Thailand's economy in the short term but for a sustainable economy Thailand will need much, much more in international trade to SAVE Thailand's economy.

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, quake said:

 

Well we do have the Poke-her,  rooms down soi 6.

always a nice afternoon out. 

 

 

 

 

And don't forget Soi 6-and-half for the poke-'her' fans.

[ourmanflint]

Will casinos have bookmakers as well, assume that is a big part of gambling scene?

[Puwa]

Casinos wont save the Thai economy. Better to break up monopolies, invest in the workforce, tackle corruption, preserve the environment.

[thesetat]

14 hours ago, quake said:

 

Mate, it's time to stop treating Thais as children.

They will then start to grow up, just like many countries have done in the past.

Who are you or any other foreigner to tell them what they can or can not do.

 

Excuse me mate? But perhaps you misread. I was not telling anyone what they can or can not do. 

[The Old Bull]

The question they need ask is will a casino bring in new money or just redistribute existing money?

[Chelseafan]

20 hours ago, BKKBike09 said:

 

Going to have to disagree with the 'appears intelligent'. 

 

The PM also forgets to mention that it will take years to build and open the billion-dollar plus Integrated Resorts they have in mind, so 'the economy' won't get any benefit for years.

 

The proposed tax rates are actually competitive but it's years away. Plus they want one mega-project in each region. 

Trust me, if it's legalized, the casino's will be open with 6 months.

 

[quake]

7 hours ago, thesetat said:

Excuse me mate? But perhaps you misread. I was not telling anyone what they can or can not do. 

 

Ok, if you say so.

 

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Perhaps instead they should stop wasting money trying to get legislation to allow the casinos and instead apply it to enforcing the current gambling laws. 

 

And this below,  is BS, it's just over looked.

You got any idea as to why it's over looked.

 

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Gambling is illegal in Thailand except for during a wedding or funeral. 

 

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[SABloke]

On 3/29/2024 at 8:16 AM, thesetat said:

Gambling is illegal in Thailand except for during a wedding or funeral.

Not true at all. Gambling is not legal during a wedding or funeral (just because you see it happening doesn't mean it's legal) 

Gamblin is, however, legal at horse racing (which is indicative of how nonsensical many laws in Thailand are. 

[Hunz Kittisak]

This was Khun Thaksin’s baby way back when he was PM

Hope they finally pass this as it’s long overdue 

Money been flowing out thru the border casinos for decades 

 

[thesetat]

7 hours ago, SABloke said:

Not true at all. Gambling is not legal during a wedding or funeral (just because you see it happening doesn't mean it's legal) 

Gamblin is, however, legal at horse racing (which is indicative of how nonsensical many laws in Thailand are. 

Here in the Kingdom of Thailand, there are certain sort of gaming activities that come part and parcel with funerary rites and funeral processions, for lack of better term, basically the entire event is a funeral. You will see and it is possible to see certain very limited gaming license extended for like a day. There are also events which very occasionally come up where licensure of what's up otherwise to be deemed a gambling activity may be approved for a very, very limited circumstances.

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https://www.legal.co.th/resources/thailand-criminal-law/criminal-jurisprudence-thailand/gambling-legal-thailand/