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Trump Declines Further Debates with Harris as Election Nears
Quick. Name someone alive today that has had more impact on the world than Musk. Just a couple of examples... Electric cars were dead in the water until Musk got involved with them. Starlink can make the difference in who wins and who loses a war. -
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Shipping an E bike from UK to Thailand.
You will pay a huge VAT charge on it that is why! -
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Digital wallet to the rescue: PM bets on cashing in for Thailand’s economy
There is no way the Digital Wallet will show any net positive results, except maybe vote buying for PT. In fact, I am quite positive it will do more damage than good to the country. -
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Thailand's New PM Outlines Bold 10-Point Plan to Revamp Economy
There's little to disagree with except that she is doing nothing at all for the economy. The digital wallet is a stupid gimmick that will inject a small amount into the economy, and load the country down with debt that will impede real investment in the future. Modernizing agriculture means making much larger and more efficient farms that can use machines instead of humans to do the work (like they do in other countries). This will create a whole slew of problems....big agricultural firms will then own all the farmland having picked the current owners off. Yes agriculture will be more efficient but the country will be left with tens of millions of landless, jobless workers. A full 50% of the workforce is supposedly involved in agriculture....50% who will all move to Bangkok creating slums while looking for work. Flat rate electric fares....how will the government fixing train fare stimulate the economy? How will combating crime and drug trafficking (however desirable you might think it) stimulate the economy? Do criminals not spend the profits they make from crime....they do, they buy big houses and fancy cars. New constitutions might make the country more democratic, but that hasn't happened in a long time. Constitutions are drafted so that those in power stay in power. The don't improve the economy either. New tax systems are needed to fund the massively growing debt that the country is starting to accumulate. Once countries get into debt they only ever get deeper into debt, they never manage to pay it off. Sadly foreigners will be included in the system of tax paying. It will affect me adversely and force me inconveniently to become a permanent tax exile.....but someone has to pay taxes, why should farangs get a free ride? Plus when designing tax systems, the designers come to realise the one solid, true, hard fact, and that is you can only get taxes out of people who have money those without money ie as mentioned above the 50% of folks in the country working for 2-300 baht a day in agriculture cannot pay taxes and eat....they will choose to eat, not to pay taxes. Whether farangs pay taxes will depend on whether they think they will get caught evading taxes (a crime) and what the penalties are. Altogether a total disappointment that the number one issue facing the country, ie the economy is completely ignored by the government. Thailand is set to go right down the toilet. Along with becoming a tax exile, I will be taking steps to protect my bank deposits, hard times will bring out the corruption in the banks (and I make the assumption, that of every institution I know of is corrupt, and it is, then some banks will more than likely be corrupt as well). -
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Essential Expat Guide: How to Buy a Motorcycle in Thailand
Yes pay installment and spend 40k on interest turn up in bkk hospital at 1 million a day. -
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GOP Urges Trump to Accept Second Debate with Harris
My my, you really are going to have a problem if he wins. Will you be one of the snowflakes crying on U Tube that I so enjoyed when he won before? -
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Statins: A Vital Consideration for Those Over 70, Study Suggests
That is a huge mistake...believe me. Apart from the odd cold I have 'never' been sick for decades and assumed all was good. Just been diagnosed with a potential serious disease as a consequence of moderately high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol levels. Too late now to reverse the damage....all I can do is limit the future damage from being any worse than it might have been. -
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Trump Declines Further Debates with Harris as Election Nears
She received the majority of delegate votes and not from 6 to 7 people. Maybe you can tell us more who these 6 to 7 people are to establish some credibility to your wild claim.- 1
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PM Paetongtarn's Policy Statement critisised as Echo of Thaksin’s Vision
As long as it’s a good vision and helps Thailand and its citizens. Where it originates from is secondary. Thais should feel blessed that the Shinawatra family is wholeheartedly working for the country. its progress and way better than what Thailand was under the junta -
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Liquid limits at airport security...
At BKK it's free next to Pattaya bus ticket sales. Upper level, past passport check, it's free next to toilets. Kind of hidden. Ask cleaning ladies, they know. I always bring empty bottle and fill up there. -
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Statins: A Vital Consideration for Those Over 70, Study Suggests
No black pudding or eggs? Like your start but need a bit more to round that out. -
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GOP Urges Trump to Accept Second Debate with Harris
To remind you, I have frequently made the factual observation that Trump’s allegations of Biden’s cognitive decline, parroted by his supporters, both foreign and domestic, started in the immediate aftermath of Trump being rushed into the Walter Reid Memorial Hospital to be administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. I have been consistent in my view that Trump was engaging in accusation confession, and that while the reason it was deemed necessary for Trump to be rushed into hospital for that test has been kept from voters, the necessity would eventually reveal itself. It revealed itself in the debate. Trump is very clearly not fit for the Presidency, he does however do a very convincing impression of a confused and meaninglessly rambling old man. Biden, lest you have forgotten, is not nor never was the Democratic Candidate for this 2024 Presidential Election. -
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