Ben Cardin actually said...

"If we could reform our tax code... to be more in harmony regarding how we collect taxes, as the OECD countries are, so that we would end up with the lowest marginal tax rates among the OECD countries,..."

"We want to gauge our OECD partners to make sure that we have more uniform rules in determining allocations of costs and revenues."

"I filed the Progressive Consumption Tax Act that incorporates two major provisions that seem to be reasons why we have not been able to advance this in the past."

"Everybody should pay their fair amount."