The next time you don?t want to admit that you plan a massive tax increase, feel free to employ the strategy Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner used to sidestep the issue during a Business Week interview with Maria Bartiromo:
People are nervous about 2010 and new taxes. Are you going to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire if the economy remains flat and unemployment is still high?
The overwhelming responsibility of people in government today is to make sure we have an economy that’s growing, unemployment coming down, factories going back to work. That is the critical imperative. That’s why we cut taxes for 95% of working Americans and for businesses across the country. It does not make sense to raise taxes in a recession.
