I’ve been telling you this all along, and now it’s just about official. Obama will be raising taxes on the middle class. Mr. “Turbo-Tax” Tim Geithner told Clintonista Stephonopoulos:

“We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”

Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn’t do it.

“We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” Geithner told me. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”

“We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we convince the American people that we are going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established,” he said.”

Of course we knew this all along, and thanks to Geithner he’s given us GOPer fodder for campaign talking points for 2010 and beyond. Americans are not going to tolerate tax increases, especially when the Government has shown how it has wasted the monies it has already been given.

There is a rude awakening coming for Mr. Obama.

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