Geithner: U.S. ‘Can’t Afford’ Bush Tax Cuts for Wealthy

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/17/geithner-u-s-cant-afford-bush-tax-cuts-for-wealthy/

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday said the U.S. “can’t afford” to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the upper-income when they expire later this year, as he spelled out the Obama administration’s economic views in a speech to the Greater Baltimore Committee in Maryland.