Kris W. Kobach, a Universityof Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor, who worked on immigration policy for former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and who helped draft the Arizona statute, insists that it's narrowly targeted to take advantage of an enforcement mechanism Congress left the locals in 1986.
Studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Oxford University, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Bank ofKansas City, National Bureau of Economic Research, American Enterprise Institute, and several others have all concluded at different times that lower hourly wages account for a substantial portion of corporate income tax payments.
The new research suggests that a nationwide ban on smoking in public and workplaces could prevent 100, 000 to 225, 000 heart attacks each year in the U.S., says one study author, Dr. David Meyers, of the UniversityofKansas School of Medicine.