{"id":58665,"date":"2021-08-19T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=58665"},"modified":"2021-08-19T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:24:14","slug":"can-scotland-afford-to-be-independent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/19\/can-scotland-afford-to-be-independent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Scotland afford to be independent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having taken part in discussion on Scotonomics last night on yesterday\u2019s GERS release it is clear that there are still big questions in people\u2019s minds in Scotland over debt, and whether Scotland could afford to be independent. These are questions I have addressed before. These are a couple of videos on this theme:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can Scotland afford to be Independent?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jN2cyVm-VgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How much debt does Scotland owe on Independence.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NoOfXUZj4gM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This one on a Scottish currency might be relevant as well:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Does Scotland need its own currency after independence?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRaMgY_xmb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having taken part in discussion on Scotonomics last night on yesterday\u2019s GERS release it is clear that there are still big questions in people\u2019s minds<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/08\/19\/can-scotland-afford-to-be-independent-2\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,106,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}