I am really not qualified to give my opinion on fiscal issues - as most people are not. For details on these complex problems we must trust (interested) third p

I am really not qualified to give my opinion on fiscal issues - as most people are not. For details on these complex problems we must trust (interested) third parties, so our perceptions are necessarily biased. I do not follow neither Spanish nor Catalan news, so I have no strong opinion about these matters. But this is not the only issue: the situation in Catalonia is complex, and ultimately should only be decided by Catalan people. One of the most common arguments against the referendum, namely that people are being "brain-washed", assumes three things wrongly: 1) That brainwashing happens only in one sense. 2) That people are easily brainwashed. 3) That brainwashed people have no right to vote. The Human Right of auto-determination does not only apply to societies we are not directly related to, but specially to the cases where we have an interested stake, since that shows that we are actually committed to those rights, and not using them abstractly to control remote regions by UN proxy. The general principle applies: "I might not agree with you, but I will always defend your right to voice your opinion"