In spite of the measures he names, you'll still end up with big businesses made up of a whole lot of small business structured "cost centres" owned by themselves, their wives and their children. This will then have an impact on the tax take, with only a proportion of it being recovered in resulting growth.

I agree with the sentiment - I'm genuinely of the opinion that the only difference between the majority of the tax take and stealing is that the former is done in open. But with huge government industries and debts to maintain there's no room for tax cuts. And if you cut that, you could eventually just issue even tax cuts.