Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

We cannot deal with the issue of political corruption unless we deal with the gross inequalities in wealth. As long as 5% of the population have 40% of the wealth they will always corrupt politics. Anyone who is serious about dealing with the corruption in politics must deal with the gross inequalities in wealth, and that means imposing taxes on the super wealthy in our society whom both Government parties cosset consistently and refuse consistently to take some of their wealth off them to make a contribution to our society.

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