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Cafferty: Should Obama hold off raising taxes on wealthy?

 
Join the conversation on Jack's blog. There are stimulus packages and there are stimulus packages. Remember the one President Bush, House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid collaborated on a while back? It was $168 billion and resulted in a few hundred dollars in most people’s pockets. It did it’s job, gave a short term [...] (link)

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