Long life to Catalan fiscal deficit

So that's it. One year of negotiations between the Catalan and the
Spanish governments on the new financial system to, finally, reach an
agreement that will have little effect to offset the shamefulfiscal
plundering of Catalonia. The three political parties that form the
Catalan Government have accepted the agreement, though with different
attitudes. While PSC and IC rushed to say it is anexcellent financial
system for Catalonia, ERC needed a couple of days to finally give his
'yes'. On the other side, CiU, the main opposition party, sees this
agreement as arenounce and believes it is not in compliance with the
Catalan Statute.

The actual details of the agreement and the way it will be implemented
are still to be defined, and many other aspects will remain uncertain
for months. However, there's only one thing we know: the new system
will not serve to compensate the Catalan fiscal imbalance with Spain.
And from this fact, there's one straightforward conclusion: if after
one year of hard negotiation in a theoretically favorable context
(PSOE in the Spanish government needing support from other parties) we
can only manage to get a financial system that doesn't even make up
for one third of the fiscal plundering, this must be the last
financial system within the Spanish state. We need to become an
independent state unless we accept this continual extraction of
Catalan resources and wealth that threatens our future and makes
Catalonia lose economic growth opportunities in the EU context.

Font: http://www.cataloniablog.com/2009/07/13/long-life-to-catalan-fiscal-deficit/