This article's talking about Thailand's economic growth in the last three months of 2012 that it was recovering from the previous year's floods and had increased a lot more than what expected. On October-December period GDP had surged 18.9%, which most analysts had forecast a figure close to 15%. If we compared with the previous quarter, the economic grew by 3.6%, so we can say that even though last year the floods had impacted on many factories, but Thailand's government implemented different ways to help stoke domestic demand in an attempt to offset the decline in exports and sustain growth in the economy.

Sometimes, i think the taxes are too high for some state like New York and California. You have to pay 40% of your income tax, which is I think it too much. I understand why the government did that, but think about it, 40% is almost half of your income! May be I came from the country that equal just one state of America, but more people. So that's why I don't have to pay tax that much since the division is larger. According to what we've learned, I think the government should put high tax on the bad goods for every states instead of put 40% tax on people's income.

"One thing that Hardin overlooked is that the political process often replicates the same economic dynamic that encourages the tragedy of the commons" I found this quote in this article, i think it's true! The government should make the serious law to limit people how much they can use and if this way doesn't work they should try another way, not just keep doing it without anything getting better. However we all should help this out together by start from ourself, i mean we should think about others that they want to use it too, not just think about our benefit. If we keep doing this we might get rid of 'Tragedy of the Commons'

Nowadays, people just keep ruining the environment, that cause a damage for us in the future, if we won't make a rules and limits about this. For example, every people have the right to fish without any limits. If we keep doing that, the fish will decrease and it might become extinct. So the government should make rules for every action that will harm the environment as mush as they could to protect them.

This article kind of surprised me, because I thought meat would be more inelastic, but actually vegetables. For me i would prefer meat better than any vegetables, but it seems like others don't think like that. If the price wasn't the main reason that made people buy them so the reason for this would because it healthy and have no fat. Nowadays a lot of people care much about how they look. Skinny is one of our fashion too, so that shifted demand of no fat food to the right (increased). They are willing to pay more for in order to keep them as a part of their diet.

Government absolutely want to decrease number selling of cigarettes. For me who won't buy cigarettes i think it really good to have price control on cigarettes.

I think they shouldn't increase the tax on the medical device. because if the medical device have higher price. It would be bad for all people, patient might have to pay more money(even though normally is still expensive), they might buy the low quality medical device to save some money to buy another medical device they have to use as well. If the government want to increase the tax they should increase on wine, beer,cigarette, algohols, and kind of that better than the nessessary things like medical device.

Because of the world's population is keep increasing, and absolutely everyone needs food. That means we have increased on demand, but we might don't have enough food. That led to increasing the price of food, and the result might increases the price of everything because when the price of food increased, everyone who bought foods would want to increase their own product.

I know that oil is important for our daily needs, and I think the oil company knew that too. That why the price of oil is so expensive, and I think it too much. People go to work and then spend their income on oil. If there is plenty of oil as they said we wouldn't have to spend that much money anymore.

I think their government, Local authorities - whatever. They shouldn't do that just because they want to make way for factories, business ventures, and for better economic. There are a lot better way to manage this problem.