CathyInBlue
Grandmaster
Generally, small nations are prosperous nations. They know they don't have the financial or raw material resources to try pie in the sky BS like Obamacare or the National Health Service in Britain. I saw a figure that something like 95% of all of the tax dollars (pounds sterling) spent in Scotland comes from the rest of the UK. If even remotely true, that's a staggering statistic. A free and independent Scotland will have to radicly rejigger their social safety net. Being a small, independent nation, they'll needs be forced to make it a smaller one. This is a good thing.