Els independentistes consideren el dèficit fiscal de Catalunya massa elevat i l'assenyalen com a principal causa de la difícil situació financera de la comunitat autònoma, que el 29 d'agost va demanar el rescat a l'Estat espanyol.
Pro-independence voters and activists tend to point to the region's precariously high deficit as the main cause of its severe financial crisis. (In the wake of meandering negotiations on Catalonia's proposed economic independence, the region's government recently had to ask for a bailout by the Spanish government.)