Craig Benson
Craig Benson
Craig R. Bensonis an American politician and businessman. He served as Governor of New Hampshire from 2003 to 2005. Benson first came to public attention when he founded Cabletron Systems, now known as Enterasys Networks, which became one of the largest employers in New Hampshire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 October 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.
spending
I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
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I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.
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Either you're for more government regulations, or you're not, and if you're not, why do you want to do more stuff, to jump through more legal hurdles?
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I was fortunate enough to have personal interaction with Hugh, and he was a mentor to me on many issues,
gambling support
I do not support gambling in this state.
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Benson said in an interview after the vote. ''I think this law finally puts all parental notification on the same footing.
government
The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.
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So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before.
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But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.
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Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
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The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
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With the continued transition from older shared-access technologies to next-generation switching, we clearly still have work ahead of us.
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We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.