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New Rules Restrict Street Vending to Low-Income Thais Only


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300k/year is low income? How many people in Bangkok earn 25k/month? Minimum wage is 363/day so even if you worked 7 days a week that is still only 10k/month. I think 25k/month probably exceeds the median income in most other cities.

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A whole new can of worms. Measuring income? Let's see your bank accounts. Show us the receipts for what you have earned.

Not more than 300,000 Baht a year? 

"Darling I'm home! Guess what, I just made 310,000 Baht this year!" 

Policeman puts head in window.

"We are confiscating your stall as you are making more than a poor person." 

How to keep people poor 101.

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These new rules mean nothing. Most of the vendors do not and will not apply for these things required since they have enough money in the bank to even be able to stock their wares to sell them in the streets. Most police will simply ask for their envelope and not enforce the laws also. 

 

I wonder which Thais they think need money enough to apply for those government benefits and still be able to maintain thousands of baht to purchase new products to sell? What a wasted effort to produce new laws that will only hurt the general public.

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1 hour ago, Classic Ray said:

Thailand has more than enough laws but enforcement is based on corrupt payments or absent.

 

That's the genius of it, the illicit payments you make to go over keep you under the 300K limit.

It's just science.

 

 

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18 minutes ago, twizzian said:

Can you honestly earn 25k per month on a food cart or selling second hand clothes etc

Single food carts may have a tough time making that sort of money... profit that is after expenses.

However some of the clothing, footwear and other market stalls can make good livings.

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3 hours ago, smedly said:

so if you are successful as a street vendor and make good money you must stop trading , what sort of logic is that ?

When prey tell, has logic ever played a part in Thai thinking? It gets the same grading as common sense '0', 90% of the time.

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44 minutes ago, twizzian said:

Can you honestly earn 25k per month on a food cart or selling second hand clothes etc

 

I don't know how much she made, but the omelet lady in front of my office made enough to go out and rent a storefront and open a restaurant.  It's also doing quite well, years later.  Making room in front of my old building for a new upstart.  He even bought her omelet cart from her.

 

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3 hours ago, smedly said:

so if you are successful as a street vendor and make good money you must stop trading , what sort of logic is that ?

 

Woah! Woah! Woah! Thailand doesn't want poor people to be successful, they just want them to keep their current serf status. Being successful is limited to the Elite, don't be rocking the boat!

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1 hour ago, NorthernRyland said:

300k/year is low income? How many people in Bangkok earn 25k/month? Minimum wage is 363/day so even if you worked 7 days a week that is still only 10k/month. I think 25k/month probably exceeds the median income in most other cities.

 

So what's the problem?

The new rules mean that actually everyone can be a street vendor, since very few will exceed the limit.

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Total Crap.

The real poor often has no capital or skills to start own business.

Useless and unworkable stupid law that only makes people suffer needlessly.

If they don't want illegal aliens to trade in the streets, they only have to check their National ID every Thai national carry.

In Thailand, freedom of vending served as a kind of safety net; middle income earners could do so on their rainy day(e.g. in case of their job losses).

 

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So just how do they check their income when it's a cash business ?  Will they check under peoples mattresses, or take an inventory of assets ? If you earn your money in cash, you can spend it in cash, it is not cashless society yet, buy anything and you can pay in cash.

Mucking Fental............:coffee1:

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