{"id":3647,"date":"2017-08-23T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/23\/independent-scotland-would-need-to-cut-deficit-says-sturgeon\/"},"modified":"2017-08-23T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:25:12","slug":"independent-scotland-would-need-to-cut-deficit-says-sturgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Independent Scotland would need to cut deficit, says Sturgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows country spent \u00a313.5bn more than it raised in taxes last year, a gap of 8.3%, compared to UK\u2019s 2.4%Nicola Sturgeon has said an independent Scotland would face tough economic challenges after data showed the country spent \u00a313.5bn more than it raised in taxes last year.The first minister confirmed that if voters backed independence in the near future, Scotland would need a dramatic improvement in its finances to bring its current spending deficit of 8.3% down to 3%, the level most economists see as sustainable. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/aug\/23\/independent-scotland-would-need-to-cut-deficit-says-sturgeon\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Scotland would need to cut deficit, says Sturgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows country spent \u00a313.5bn more than it raised in taxes last year, a gap of 8.3%, compared to UK\u2019s 2.4%Nicola Sturgeon has said an independent Scotland would face tough economic challenges after data showed the country spent \u00a313.5bn more than it raised in taxes last year.The first minister confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}