Robert McIntyre

Robert McIntyre
Robert Douglas McIntyrewas a Scottish physician and a Scottish National Party politician and Member of Parliament...
cheer everybody imagine percent sales tax
Imagine a 40-to-50 percent sales tax -- that would cheer everybody up,
anybody buy invest machinery people
If people don't buy stuff, why would anybody invest in machinery to make stuff?
company good high might money oil profits raised similar situation time ways
It raised a lot of money at a time when we were having very high oil company profits - it worked. In many ways we're in a similar situation today. It might be a good idea again.
hired intended people
We've hired most people we've intended to hire and are still interviewing,
budget choice decision lost offer people saw school staff three west
West Bridgewater's decision to offer school choice coincided with our budget issues, and people saw it as an opportunity. We had lost a little over 100 staff in three years.