Alex Salmond has watched Braveheart too many times.
@Hekko, Before I wrote what I wrote, I understood the current situation of both the UK and Norway in terms of debt, but any debt is not good and one does not simply turn something into an investment and Its not like its even possible to by a country in this day and age, im sure if it was to be sold there would be a public up-raw from the Scottish population.
But although this has turned rather serious, I made this thread for one reason, to see if there was any Bravehearts in the community and if so how many. I really enjoyed reading this part "The state revenue on scotland in 2011 was estimated at 53,1 billion GBP And the expenditure was at 63,8 billion GBP"
The existance of debt is not intrinsincly bad or good, it's the amount, interest and other things that determine if it's a problem or not. The Norseigan debt is far from a problem, as shown in my quick numbers, and norway has capacity to borrow alot more.
It's highly improbable to sell a country, but still possible I reckon. Having said that I don't really ser selling scotland as an option. And buying a country would not really be a good investment anyway.
Before you're too happy about the fact that scotland is running a deficit, consider the fact that as long as the deficit it is running is lower, as a percentage of GDP, than the UK deficit of 8,3% Scotland would benefit from independence (including things that are common for the whole UK such as defence, financing EU, foreign policy, scotlands fair share of sovreign debt interest and other similar services the story is likely to change).
Both the UK and scotland would be worse of in the case of a split, because some things are economies of scale and the bigger the country, the lower the burden on the individual taxpayer.
