As the author points out, any small nation can succeed, but Scots will need to lose their addiction to welfare and government employment first.
These things are based on debt and money printing - and that would quickly turn small Scotland, without the ability to issue debt in their own currency, into Zimbabwe.
And that’s where the SNP is lying to the people.
Scotland is going to attempt to separate without having any of the basic institutions in place to support the social democratic state they seek.
they don’t currently have any way to collect their own: income tax, payroll tax, corporate tax, excise tax. they admit they will be dependent on britain to collect these taxes after “independence” for years to come.
they don’t have any of their own programs to pay unemployment benefits or welfare benefits, or nhs payments or even social housing payments.
forget about passports, an “independent” scotland might not be able to issue its own drivers licenses for years
in 1980 Quebec was all ready to go, at least on all of the above.
this is a joke, scotland is in no way ready for independence.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/independent-scotland-set-up-cost-200million.1403436655
This cannot happen first. People are not interested in abandoning an endless supply of goodies. But if the supply ends, then the people will have no choice but to become productive.
Financing the country with debt is a dead end. The sooner the country gives up that drug, the better. Just look at the USA - the debt is so high that it cannot be ever paid back, and that undermines the souvereignity of the country.
Zimbabwe is different because the population there is (a) porly educated, (b) brainwashed, and (c) racist, led by a racist party with a communist-like leader for life. This is not how one builds a prosperous country.
As Scotland has valuable supplies of oil, there is every financial reason for them to declare independence and use that oil for themselves. Norway is not complaining, at least.
That's the key, and from the looks of things, the Scots are rushing into this without stopping to think about what it is they'd like to become, apart from "not English."
That’s the not the only way SNP is lying.
Indeed.