Calling for 'full fiscal freedom' with one breath, but calling for a 'full fiscal pact' with the next.

BBC: pound coins and notes

If Scotland was to leave the UK but retain the pound, it would "still enjoy the huge advantages that the full fiscal freedom of independence will bring", Ms Sturgeon said.

BBC: Scottish money

It would have no central bank, no monetary freedom and limited fiscal autonomy.

ECONOMIST: The economics of home rule

In the first instance, greater mobility of capital gives governments more freedom of manoeuvre in fiscal policy, not less.

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And it needs to become more philosophically consistent when it comes to advancing individual freedom as well as fiscal responsibility.

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Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and social policy.

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So fiscal integration is being pushed not to preserve freedom and a new nation, but to save a failing currency.

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