As for the Ibarratxe Plan (text), it was expansive. Depending on how you read the document, it can be interpreted as independence or as something akin to the level of autononmy of a US state. All in all, what the Basque government has proposed isn't that different from what the Basques had in Hapsburg Spain. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
More important. The tax and spend systems which are the more decentralized elements of the autonomous government are also different.
Formally Navarra has a associated free state status regarding taxes. It is very surprising, but it is bascially true. Navarra accepts freely to give some money to Madrid if they wish..and then you write a law to fix how. It is really amazing.
The basque country has a confederal system. Central Governmentmust ask the Basque government the money. But he Basque Country must give this money under the law. Generally they must reach an agreement.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
