senator carl levin representing michigan from 1979 to 2015. now he is with wayne center university. good morning. guest: good morning. host: what have you been doing since congress? guest: at wayne state law school, i helped to teach a tax course. the tax professor there, a wonderful guy, alan shank, talked about what the tax code is supposed to provide. and i used my subcommittee hearings to show how a lot of people even eight and avoid paying taxes and were using gimmicks. taxes and were using gimmicks. and to teach students to show how broken our tax system is. and how it has taken advantage of some of the wealthiest individuals among us and some of the most profitable corporations among us. host: how do they do that? guest: there are a lot of loopholes. one of the corporation, apple, shifts its intellectual property to itself

first caller is bruce for senator carl levin. go ahead, bruce.aller: how long have you been in congress, serve? guest: 36 years in congress and the senate. caller: it always amazes me when people complain about tax loopholes in the way tax laws are written. who wrote the tax laws? weren't you part of voting or accepting them, and then all of a sudden you got on the attack. guest: not all of a sudden. i heald hearings over a decade. it showed the damage that was done by these tax loopholes. we had some impact on a number of bills that were able to get passed. we closed a few. i did not vote for all the tax laws. i voted for some and against some. it is lopsided. there are too few people on the corporate side, but on the individual side. there is a lot of pressure on congress. some people cave into it. some people don't cave into it. but this is a major issue and will be a part of the presidential campaign. i have no doubt there will be a debate among candidates and people running for office about closing down these tax havens. so the answer is, i

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host: our guest is senator carl levin, currently at wayne state university. senator from i can 79 to 2015. -- senator from 1979 to 2015. michael from georgia. you are on with our guest. caller: how are you, senator? good to see you. this is my question. i work for the irs. on, republican, for and hour. she stated all of these lies. we know that my livelihood would be in jeopardy if i take any types of action. and the democrats are talking about tax evasion when the republicans nominated a tax evade or. that is total hypocrisy. guest: the pressure is going to grow on him. the whole issue of tax avoidance is a big issue. .t will be in the campaign mr. trump will be under tremendous pressure to put his his disclosure, where his mouth is. before he said he would do it, he would not do it, then he would do it. the previous speaker who talked about it, i did not hear her. that i dorstand understand she is suing people who represent the irs, which are supposed to be social welfare organizations. this is true of both parties, by the way. there are organizations repre

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