Tim Geithner: “I think it's inevitable that the Congress and the administration come together and reform, comprehensively, the U.S. tax…”

Absolutely. Yes, again, we see there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans.

The TARP bank investments have already produced a profit for the taxpayer of over $19.5 billion.

You cannot govern a country if you commit never to raise taxes on anybody, because things change, wars happen, crises happen.

If Congress were to choose to try to defer everything... that would be very damaging to the interests of the country.