Good point. I’ve been for Texas independence since the early 80s, myself.
If I were the new Catalan parliament, I’d be formulating a plan for independence that included transport, currency, mail, taxation, spending ... everything that you want to have in place before you propose full political autonomy. Establish a reasonable potential for economic self-sufficiency. (I don’t know how far they are from that.)
The comparison with Scotland is instructive: Scotland couldn’t support their welfare state for a year without subsidies from the rest of Great Britain.
Did you sign the petition for it to be put on the republican ballot for the TX primary?
Scotland Independence was better for England. It would be like Michigan cutting loose Wayne County and its neighboring leftist areas.
About scotland — it’s not completely true. Their welfare state could run on its own with North Sea oil for a few years. But then it would run out — and that would be sooner rather than later