did he say that on talk like a pirate day? how appropriate! betcha pirates don't pay no stinkin taxes nohow.
 

*caveat: I am NOT an economist of any sort*

It seems to me that most successful businesses generate capital that is reinvested, and that reinvestment is STILL written off on the business tax statement. His personal income is another story entirely. He was skipping over that part of the tale, conveniently.

So if we ask the super-rich to pay their fair share, the country will collapse into a pile of rubble?

The biggest corporations have already moved their corporate headquarters "offshore" to avoid corporate taxes, and moved manufacturing to Asia-Pacific; they have cut benefits and taken away retirement plans. He is just squealing because he is not a big enough corporate entity to evade taxes the way his bigger brothers have.