We are all "equal" in regards to rights and how laws should apply to us. But, that is basically where it ends. Now, if we could only get all of these "bad" laws removed from the books.
My good old dictionary brings up things like being the same measure, quantity, value, quality, number, degree or status as another. That is where the discussion gets opened up wide for so many interpretations and applications that none of us are truly "equal" to one another in every sense of the word.
"Spreading the wealth" is a crock, too. You work for it, you get paid for it. If a person drives themselves to get an advance education, then applies that education in a GOOD way, that person should be expected to be compensated for that. If that person uses their education in a BAD way (tax fraud) they should be compensated with prison time.