Carl Levin actually said...

Corporate taxes now account for a historically low percentage of all Federal revenues.

I know you have talked about the deficit and how to go about addressing it and how you would recommend that we proceed with deficit reductio...

both Democratic U.S. Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow

Is it not obvious what was happening here, that these prices were being changed in order to reduce the loss on the books?