The Money Flows Up, Not Down

[Chunky1]

For five years I have been listening to you guys claim that the Red shirt movement/protests are being funded by Thaksin. At the same time you guys claim that PTP politicians in Thailand are making a fortune and that they are extremely corrupt. So what you are saying essentially is that PTP Politicians are both paid by Thaksin and at the same time are making money off of their position of power.

The money does not flow down from Thaksin, it flows up. The red shirt politicians make tribute payments up the ladder and the BOSS profits from it. Therefore, the hypothesis that once Thaksin runs out of money that he will go away is inherently flawed because the Reds are still in control of a large portion of the nation and are of course raking in billions of baht. The only conceivable end to the Red-Yellow struggle would be a rebellion against Thaksin from other Red Shirts.

[Moonrakers]

Has it not occurred to you that any money sent up could then be reinvested in the masses who have no money?

[Chunky1]

That is exactly what I wrote in my post. Thaksin is not out spending his personal fortune on protest rallies. It's just the profits, therefore you guys can stop estimating his "remaining net worth" and claiming that it's "all going to be over soon".

[Moonrakers]

Question chunky:

How do you know how much is being 'donated', compared with how much is being 'invested'?

[sbk]

Another red shirt topic??? really?? lets do try to limit these to this one and the other one thats currently running because anything else will be shut down. I've reached my rhetoric threshold today, thanks

[waza]

Thaskin still has the revenue coming in from government concessions that his Government awarded him and they will last til 2029

[StreetCowboy]

I'm surprised his auditors released all this information.

Still, I suppose he keeps good records, so it must all be there in black and white.

I would have thought you could get all this info from his tax returns

SC

[Moonrakers]

I'm surprised his auditors released all this information.

Still, I suppose he keeps good records, so it must all be there in black and white.

I would have thought you could get all this info from his tax returns

SC

[Bagwan]

The very thought that Thaksin's lieutenants pass up folding stuff to him has me in hysterics. Thaksin's greed was part satisfied at Government level. He altered laws, penalised any competition and used his office to acquire dodgy International and domestic contracts to say nothing of avoiding tax.

A moments thought might have made you realise that it is highly unlikely that village headmen or town mayors made payment s in an upward direction. They were appointed on account of their special talents in the area of looking the other way. Payments for votes came out of the pocket of local phu yuais who collected handsomely once they were elected and not from the Great Dictator. (Where is the Thai Charlie Chaplin who will make a film about the man from Chiang Mai?) The rich and powerful do not carry money around with them, it is dirty and in the US at least tainted with drugs. The same also pay little or no tax. Ask Leona Helmsley - another that the law finally caught up with. As with the lower orders,the phu yais look the other way or offer support when required, and thus are allowed to plunder at their own level.