But Geithner could have just answered the fucking question, right? So fuck Geithner.

During a Monday press conference, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs denied the possibility of tax increases on the middle-class, saying that an Associated Press report was based upon “hypothetical back and forths” between its economic advisers and not actual pending policy.

His answer was in response to suggestions by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers on Sunday that middle class taxes may have to go up in order to pare down the budget deficit.

“I think the advisers allowed themselves to get into a hypothetical back and forth,” Gibbs explained on Monday. “I will say this and i think this is important for all of us to understand and we’ve talked, about this issue and throughout the time that we’ve been here, we do have a big structural deficit that’s going to have to be dealt with in order to meet the president’s commitment of cutting this deficit in half and getting us back on a path toward fiscal responsibility.”

He insisted: “The door to new middle class taxes is not open even a millimeter.”

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/03/gibbs-obama-committed-to-no-middle-class-tax-hike/