Please help...serious issue.

[Jamiman]

http://www.petitiononline.co.nz/petition/100-rates-relief-for-uninhabitable-christchurch-homes/1504

This is a petition to help people stop paying unjust taxes within New Zealand. Since the large earthquakes, some people are being forced to pay double taxes, as they have to pay tax on their now destroyed houses as well as their temporary accommodation.

Check this if you want proof: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ne...3/No-rates-for-homeless-red-zoners-councillor


This issue is directly affecting my father, who has already spearheaded a campaign, but it needs support.

If you could like and share on facebook and around that would be great and mean a lot to me. If not, then at least sign the petition at the top.

Cheers

Jamiman

Website of issue group: http://chchratesrelief.co.nz/home/

 

[cm1179]

where else would they get the money from?

 

[snowball1]

What has it got to do with residents of the UK!

 

[albert]

Normally when there's a disaster somewhere in the world our TV in the UK is inundated with 'appeal' adverts.

So i guess ... a) Your not a poor country so you'll have to sort your own problems out or b) No-one in the world cares about you.

 

[Philtor]

stop paying unjust taxes within New Zealand.

Do you buy petrol/diesel in the UK? Clearly not and yes it's an 'unjust tax'. Why would I care about New Zealand? Have you thought this one through??

 

[Jamiman]

Look, could you please sign? I know it might not affect you but it is seriously affecting others, believe it or not. For those few sseconds of your time it makes a difference.

 

[Philtor]

It's the other side of the world fella but I will sign it. Maybe when your at it, you could start one for me? Click Me

 

[cm1179]

Look, could you please sign? I know it might not affect you but it is seriously affecting others, believe it or not. For those few sseconds of your time it makes a difference.

but where else do they expect the money to come from?

 

[Tyron]

The guy is asking you to sign a petition, not empy your pockets ffs.

So much for the respect everyone is banging on about

 

[Philtor]

The guy is asking you to sign a petition, not empy your pockets ffs.

So much for the respect everyone is banging on about

That's the way we roll in GD

 

[2bit]

I'm not sure it's correct for me to petition a foreign government on affairs I know very little about.

That way madness lies.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Look, could you please sign? I know it might not affect you but it is seriously affecting others, believe it or not. For those few sseconds of your time it makes a difference.

I'm not saying this is one of those things, but what the hell is the point of any petition when you can just go on forums and ask random uninvolved people to sign it for you.

Would anyone mind if for the next general election, the whole of Russia just votes for an ultra nationalist party?

Basically, if New Zealand cares, and it should, all New Zealander's should be signing the petition and the government should listen to their people, that is kind of how life works.

Anyway, ultimately petitions are worthless, always have been, always will be. Your dad needs the press involved and public opinion agreeing with him IN NEW ZEALAND, having 4 billion people signing a petition from around the world, would merely make them ignore the petition.

Me signing a petition about something in New Zealand WON'T help but might stop your dad doing something that actually would help, thinking the petition is going well... something that I wouldn't want to happen.

Petitions suck, tell your dad to go bigger and better and forget a daft petition.

 

[Philtor]

I'm not sure it's correct for me to petition a foreign government on affairs I know very little about.

AFAIK a petition is only valid within said country. Some of the more frequent posters in GD will be along soon and clarify. I doubt New Zeland care for my vote, but hey it worked in the Eurovision

 

[Jamiman]

but where else do they expect the money to come from?

Money for what precisely? They shouldn't be charging people double tax beacuse they've been forced out of their homes due to a natural disaster.

I'm not saying this is one of those things, but what the hell is the point of any petition when you can just go on forums and ask random uninvolved people to sign it for you.

Would anyone mind if for the next general election, the whole of Russia just votes for an ultra nationalist party?

Basically, if New Zealand cares, and it should, all New Zealander's should be signing the petition and the government should listen to their people, that is kind of how life works.

Anyway, ultimately petitions are worthless, always have been, always will be. Your dad needs the press involved and public opinion agreeing with him IN NEW ZEALAND, having 4 billion people signing a petition from around the world, would merely make them ignore the petition.

Me signing a petition about something in New Zealand WON'T help but might stop your dad doing something that actually would help, thinking the petition is going well... something that I wouldn't want to happen.

Petitions suck, tell your dad to go bigger and better and forget a daft petition.

He's already made the morning news, 4 national newspaper headlines and had various telephone interviews with the press. He's also taken it to the council meetings, has his local MP on his side etc. I'm just trying to rally suport from people who agree that his is an unjust tax, regardless of who they are. I'm not trying to be the next invisible children or anything, but support for these things from people who agree that it is unjust is welcome.

I'm not sure it's correct for me to petition a foreign government on affairs I know very little about.

That way madness lies.

There's plenty of information in the links provided, if you have the time to read them, and if you have a little more time then you can always practice some google-fu. After only a few minutes you should be able to build up a picture of what is going on with this particular issue.

 

[Skull]

Look, could you please sign? I know it might not affect you but it is seriously affecting others, believe it or not. For those few sseconds of your time it makes a difference.

You are really undermining the credibility of the petition with your behaviour. In the same way that no UK politician would take a petition seriously if half the signatories were from Hawaii, no one in New Zealand will change their mind if half of your signatures come from the UK.

Try thinking beyond just the number of people who sign it.

 

[2bit]

AFAIK a petition is only valid within said country. Some of the more frequent posters in GD will be along soon and clarify. I doubt New Zeland care for my vote, but hey it worked in the Eurovision

Nah I'm sure you're right.

 

[Jamiman]

Do you buy petrol/diesel in the UK? Clearly not and yes it's an 'unjust tax'. Why would I care about New Zealand? Have you thought this one through??

I will happily assist you however I can if you want to start a campaign against petrol prices in the UK. I too feel their pain.

 

[hyperst]

Does house insurance not cover this?

Just don't pay it, what are they going to do, take your demolished house?

If they do, tell them they are welcome to it.

 

[2bit]

.....

There's plenty of information in the links provided, if you have the time to read them, and if you have a little more time then you can always practice some google-fu. After only a few minutes you should be able to build up a picture of what is going on with this particular issue.

I don't have the time, sorry.

 

[Philtor]

I will happily assist you however I can if you want to start a campaign against petrol prices in the UK. I too feel their pain.

Nothing short of a joke tbh. I live fairly close to the border and quite a few mates use red diesel (only permitted for agricultural use in tractors and such) and HM Customs wonder why? It's a joke that we pay through the nose whilst the USA run their big Gas Guzzlers for pennies. Something wrong big time