Ben Cardin actually said...

"There is no other way to get competitive marginal business tax rates in this country without bringing different revenues into funding government other than income tax revenues."

"It has to be fair, which means middle-income taxpayers should not pay any more of the cost of our government percentage-wise than they are paying today."

"The major concern we heard today is, will middle-income families pay more? That is something which I said I would not support."

"We have to raise the revenue that we say we are going to raise so we do not add to the deficit."