If governments took your tax dollars and then spent them with wisdom and discretion, the difference between the high tax revenue areas, like Catalonia, and the low tax revenue areas, would be there, but tolerable. But Spain’s socialist politicians have turned into the hogs they all act like when they have a pot of money. There is no need so small the state shouldn’t pay for it. (Birth control pills come to mind. Oh, and “free” condoms.) Each year the freebies keep going up, because the attitude of the takers is, “what have you done for me lately?” Finally, it has reached a boiling point. As my mother used to say, “Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.”
To quote Margaret Thatcher, “Socialism works fine, until you run out of other people’s money.” To that I’d add, “...or, until the other people take their money and leave.” (We see this happening here in areas like Detroit, Chicago and New York.)