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I have been talking a lot in this past year in 2024 about Tax Policy. I have also been talking a lot about digital money, and guess what, I don't like either. Now let me be clear, people seem to think that I am completely anti-tax or something. No, I get that there's a need for reasonable taxation in order to maintain sort of reasonable infrastructure and things of this nature. That being said, I mean especially when coupling it with digitization, it seems that the World Economic Forum sycophants as well as all of the other totalitarians who apparently have been cloaked for the better part of my life, come out of the woodwork the minute they think they're going to be able to digitize themselves into sort of a if you will sort of tax rentier paradise. The fact of the matter is I think none of this is going to come off and frankly all of it is bad for frankly rank-and-file Thais in the economy in general. 

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Thailand's proposed salt tax to be a tiered system. The first thing I thought of was like "salt tax"? I mean are you going to tax people on water next; I mean this is getting ridiculous. By the way, do people kind of forget? Didn't India's entire uprising at the end of the British Raj cult, like sort of centre around the salt tax? Wasn't that what Gandhi marched to the sea for to get sea salt because he didn't want to pay the British's tax? Again, I get its slightly different nuances here in Thailand as we don't have colonial overlords although the World Economic Forum is sure looking like they would like to be colonial overlords. But that being said again, are we forgetting the context in South Asia about the notion of “salt tax”? It's creepy is all I'm saying. 

That said, quoting directly: "The planned," - and bear in mind it's "planned". There has been a lot of stuff that has been planned the last year and a half that the media has talked about as if it's a foregone conclusion. For example, OECD membership, which I can't see any benefit to Thailand, the media keeps talking about that as if it's a foregone conclusion; they talked about Digital Money as if it was a foregone conclusion, and the Digital Wallet. It didn't come to pass. We ended up seeing that being “handed” out in actual monetary format. They also talked about the notion we were going to go a trillion Baht into debt to create the Digital Wallet, again as a foregone conclusion; that was not a foregone conclusion. So, I'm really getting tired of the media talking about things that are "planned" as if they are happening so that the public just goes along with it. I find it to be very pernicious and quite honestly very disingenuous. Again, quoting directly: "The planned "salt tax" is expected to materialize within the next year, with implementation in the form of a tiered system based on sodium levels. According to Kulaya Tantitemit, Director-General of the Excise Department, Thai people currently consume twice the amount of sodium that is standard. This is similar to the sugar tax introduced by the Excise Department 7or 8 years ago, which led beverage producers to reduce sugar content in their products. According to Ms. Kulaya, the products likely to be subject to Salt tax first might be snacks, which are considered to be non-essential items." 

Listen to what they are saying. First of all, they are taxing something that is very basic to the human condition. Salt. We all need it, okay? This is equivalent to taxing water and by the way, before you think that they wouldn't do that, they tried to tax carbon dioxide which is part and parcel of the cycle of life that is carbon-based humanity. So again, this is just the kind of people that these people are. Meanwhile, also understand, this is not a foregone conclusion. People that have problems with this, voice it to your Parliamentarians. Tell them we're not interested in this nonsense, okay. But also look at how they are talking about it. It's to control you; it's a tax used to control you; "oh you don't need that much salt!"  By the way, there's no ongoing consensus as to whether or not sodium is bad, good or indifferent. What we do know is the human body needs salt. It's just a basic component; we need it and they're trying to tax it. Bear in mind, the word salary in the English language comes from Salt, the word sal, S-A-L. Why does it come from that? Because Roman soldiers used to be paid in salt. Salt is something you absolutely have to have; it's a necessary component for people to live. And again, we were talking about salt and salary, again the term, “he's not worth his salt”, comes from that notion, again where Romans were saying “oh you didn't pull your own weight in the legion; you're not worth your salt, you're not worth your salary”. And now these people through digitization want to come in yet again tax us on something very basic. And meanwhile, again these people have no right to do this, and on top of that, these people are doing something to people that is going to affect the very lowest strata of the socio-economic food chain, the lowest smallest people. The people that can afford this least are going to pay this most on a salt tax. Again, and I point this out again, it’s much like digital money. Remember when they rolled out digital money, they said, “oh, you can only use it in certain places. There will be a parameter where you can use it; you can only use it for a certain time, and you can only use it on certain products. This is what will happen if we allow digital money. They will tell us what we can eat; they will tell us it is not good for us and therefore they are going to tax us on it. Say no to all of this.