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Thai Govt Has Failed To Solve Land Inequity

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People with money can afford to buy land. Poor people can not. Welcome to life. Try harder next time.

In Thailand it does not matter how hard you work it's who's your daddy. Ask Chalerm's sons! Compassion is apparently not one of your strong points. Thai Buddhist?
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What about Alpine Golf course and land development. Which is now owned by the Shintiawt Group. This land once belonged to a temple and is around 700 rai of land, on klong 5 in Pathumtani. On numerous occasions the rulings said the land must be returned to the temple. Nothing done and it had been going on for over 20 years.

Alpine is highly political. Currently, the ruling party (PT) are logjamming the proceedings every way they can, because some of their top people, including tax-cheat Thaksin, are implicated. No justice will come forth as long as PT is in power. After that, the statute of limitations will cement the ruse, and make it untouchable.

From a few Isan villages I'm familiar with, it doesn't seem to be a problem with Chinese Thais. But the people take loans from the kamnan or phuyaibaan, or one of the other significant families in the village, their own people. When they can't repay the loans, they forfeit their land. I've seen one kamnan grow extremely wealthy over a period of 15 years or so.

Precisely. Rich cheating the poor out of property. Happens dozens or hundreds of times daily in Thailand. Plus, there's essentially no land or estate taxes, so the rich are doubly happy.

People with money can afford to buy land. Poor people can not. Welcome to life. Try harder next time.

Not that simple, dude. There's a lot of cheating and underhandededness going on. It's yet another reason why the rich get richer and the poor are stuck in the mud.

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