'Movement urging real equality has to start now' by Vincent Browne ,April 7th 2010
By Vincent Browne, Irish Times
We need a new political movement that will frame a different agenda – an equality-of-outcomes agenda; this “equality of opportunity” stuff is just more spinning. This agenda has got to involve, among much else, a commitment to start lessening the scale of inequality here by moving towards a more equal distribution of wealth and income by, for instance, setting a benchmark that nobody gets paid more than five times the lowest paid (this to be achieved through practices under State control and through the taxation system).