Suicides would rise and the big losers will be the children.Ĭharlie B: I am fairly neutral about legal, licensed, and regulated casinos. This will result in more people living in poverty with no hope of recovery. Ken T: Having lived here in Thailand for 21 years, and observing how the population loves to gamble, opening a legal casino, would result in more people with uncontrolled gambling tendencies. All businesses would greatly profit from it plus would be a positive defining decision for the PM and would counteract the black market. James W: Yes would be good for the whole economy, job creation, tourist attraction, hotels, restos, malls, etc. If you would like to still chime in here is how: You can respond here, on our social media accounts, or e-mail us for privacy at here is what you, our readers, said:
We selected the responses below for diversity and at random and with no particular bias. The following is just a selection of the dozens of responses we got. Reader Talkback: Would you support opening a LEGAL casino in Pattaya? Why or Why not? Last week, we asked you the following question: The following is our weekly feature in which we give the results of a question we ask our readers at the start of every week.
