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I was initially going to make a different video on this, I was going to talk about Casino policies specifically here in Thailand. It seems they have even changed their policy in between the time I saw what they were talking about and what we are at now, so let me go ahead and get you up to speed. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Requirement of 50 million Baht in account for Casino entry removed. "The Entertainment Complex Bill has been amended, removing the requirement that Thais much show they have at least 50 million in a fixed deposit before being allowed into the planned Casino entertainment-complex." 

Yeah, I had a real problem with that. I don't like the notion there are places Thais can't go in Thailand, but foreigners can. That's wrong, that's antithetical to my opinion everything it means to be a Thai, in Thailand especially. Quoting further: "It has been replaced by the need to have filed 3 years of income tax returns." Wow, interesting that everything seems to just always the Nexus point comes back to this tax stuff. Quoting further: "The requirement is in Section 65 of the draft Entertainment Complex Bill which has been under scrutiny by the Council of State," - now reading about it before, the video I was going to make, they were about all this casino stuff like it was a foregone conclusion. It is not a foregone conclusion. People need to understand that. I really hope that relevant folks in Parliament as well as in the Council of the State, in the Cabinet, elsewhere, pump the brakes, okay? We do not need to saddle Thailand with a terrible Gambling Bill, okay. We could saddle this country with something that does nothing but suck wealth out of the people of this country and brings nothing back. Let's sit down; let's do this slowly; let's really figure out what's going to be best for Thailand. 

As I have discussed in other videos, stop with all this nonsense about tax filing. Why should a Thai have to file 3 tax returns in order to walk into a casino? What is that, okay? That's nonsense. How about this? I've been talking about this forever. Bet limits for Thais. It can be easily done. You have to ID everybody going into the Casino. Give them a player's card. I've seen this done at the casinos in Kansas City on the riverboats, and I'll get to tribal stuff here in a minute, but with regard to this, "oh it can only be rich Thais and things", no there's an easier way to do that. Put a bet-limit on it. Now I know all the foreign casino executives out there have all their own ideas about how things should work. First of all, shut up! This isn't your country. We're not interested in a bunch of corporate people coming here and telling us how the cow ate the cabbage, okay? What will this end up meaning? It'll effectively end up meaning that probably all of these Casino complexes will end up having two floors. They will have effectively a floor for the foreigners that will be higher limit, and there would effectively be a floor for the Thais. Now anybody that has ever been to a Thai Casino, effectively a “Thai Casino”, these places along primarily I've been to the ones along the Cambodian border, although years ago I went to one in Myanmar. That said, they're primarily Thai casinos especially over in Cambodia, especially along our border. These places, it's not like a casino I've ever seen. It's like your grandma's living room. It's just their all playing like Sick Bow or whatever they want to be playing; blackjack or baccarat or whatever. It's very subdued, okay. It's not what you expect from a normal Casino. You can have a floor that - and again it wouldn't be designated Thai and foreign - there would just be a low limit floor and a high limit floor and again, you can set bet-limits based on nationality because you will use like ID Cards to identify who they are to give them a player's card and then they can just run their player's card at every table or at every slot machine they go through. Most corporations do this anyway to create points to promote their business. So this isn’t hard okay? Not difficult at all. We don't need all these requirements that you make a certain amount of money; we don't need all these requirements that you file tax returns etc.; we don't need the in my opinion, the absolute monstrosity if you will of saying, "oh Thais can't go in here" in their own country. That's ridiculous, but at the same time we can shave off the edges of problem gambling by creating a bet-limit. I mean for all the talk of digitization and computers, they want to take away all of our ability to spend money privately because computers can track all of this, but magically in a casino context, we don't have that ability. That is nonsense.

That said, quoting further: "The requirement is in Section 65 the draft Entertainment Complex Bill which has been under scrutiny by the Council of State, the Government's legal advisory body." In a print edition of the Bangkok Post, they said it was going to be a while before these folks were done. I suspect it may go back and forth to the Council of State for a while; there are a lot of legalities here. And I'm going to get into the Native Americans here in a minute. That said, quoting further: "He said the draft bill would be submitted to the Cabinet for approval as soon as possible." Why should it be that way? I actually don't want the Cabinet moving all that fast on this, nor the Parliament, okay? We could get saddled with something that could hurt this country tremendously. Why are we rushing into it and why are we rushing into it at the behest of a bunch of foreigners? Quoting further: "He expected this would be during the current Parliamentary session." Again, they are saying that after it's been said that that might not be the case. None of this is a foregone conclusion. I'm going to have a real problem with Parliament if they set up some scheme that benefits a bunch of foreigners to the detriment of the Thais. Quoting further: "On Monday, representatives of the several protest groups - the Network of Students and People for Thailand's Reform, the Centre of People for the Protection of the Monarchy, and the Dharma Army - gathered near Government House in Bangkok. They submitted a letter to the Prime Minister opposing passage of the legislation. They argued that it would be harmful to the people, the country and the principles of all religions." Is this the kind of consternation we need to stir up right now in Thailand, and for what? For gambling? Something people don't really morally love? I mean on any level gambling is not some great moral victory here. Meanwhile, again we could set up something where the foreigners are going to take advantage of us on a constant basis and everybody just seems like they want to just hurriedly push this thing through. I get it. You're all salivating at the thought of the money but think about what it could do to your countrymen to have foreigners coming in here, extracting wealth right off the top of all of these people, okay. And stop making it about "oh, we're going to up the limits." Yeah, I know what you're doing. You're trying to suck in all the Thai “Whales” as we call it in the gaming system, trying to suck in all the rich people and bleed them dry, because you know they're not going to get a lot of sympathy from the greater populace. I know how you play these political games, which brings me to the issue of the Native American tribes. 

Thailand or maybe more specifically, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, how about you do something other than create a “so-called Visa” that is not fit to purpose for Thailand. How about you go out and talk to the Native American tribes in America of just how many myriad ways the white man and every other person in the gaming establishment has spent their entire careers trying to screw over those sovereign nations. If you do that, you will learn how this game is played. I can't stress enough, Thailand needs to learn from both the mistakes as well as the successes of the sovereign tribes of the United States of America when it comes to issues of gambling. You are going to better understand how to deal with corporate gambling, corporate interest pertaining to gambling, and you will end up benefiting Thailand thereby.