The judgment we're making is absolutely the right judgment. Is that as a country, given where we started, we have no choice but to move aggressively on these fronts.
Tim Geithner: “The judgment we're making is absolutely the right judgment. Is that as a country, given where we started, we have no…”
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Geithner defends the aggressive economic policies being implemented by the administration.
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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.
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If Congress were to choose to try to defer everything... that would be very damaging to the interests of the country.
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