With Kevin Rudd suggesting he will axe the carbon tax, in doing so he has actually admitted that the tax added 7.5% to household power bills.

So what I would like to know is how come labor defended the tax saying it would only add 0.7% to power, when it actually added over ten times that amount.

How can they get these things so wrong.

Butch,
That is easy. They lie. They know no other way.

Spin, lies and deceit are natural to the current government.

Just one week before the event, Rudd said there were no circumstances in which he would challenge for the PMs job.

A 7.5 % electricity cost increase more than compensated for by the
increase in tax free allowance.
I am better off.
Only the wasters and large users of electrical energy will pay
more.
Tough luck.

rehctub,

Don't know where you got your 0.7% from.

Labor projected a 10% rise in the cost of electricity owing to the carbon tax.

http://theconversation.com/plain-speaking-on-the-carbon-tax-and-electricity-prices-8148

Being that it's come in at 7.5%, that's considerably under that which the compensation caters for.

Of course, partisan views do attempt to skew the reality of the situation, as this embarrassing example for Tony Abbott did some time ago,(note the 10% or less figure mentioned again)

"The Opposition knows that the increase around the country has been what was predicted - 10 per cent or less."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-10/abbott-caught-out-on-use-of-pensioner27s-power-bill/4305908

You ask? "How can they get these things so wrong."

Answer - They didn't.

If anything, they over-estimated the rise.

10% was the estimated rise, so lets not panic you are better off than you thought, shooting from the hip, gets you into trouble.

Gday Rechtub.
Are you aware Labor told us in Parliament, question time, about 100 times the cost was 10%
While we are here what is the costs of Abbotts plans?