it has been wonderful, nfib, i need to start by saying with the partnership we've had with the states. it's meant so much to our members and to the organization so we really are so happy that you all welcomed us into the lawsuit. so yes, as the attorney general mentioned and i think you've seen especially in a lot of the 24 hours after coverage, there are some silver linings in this decision in that we did win our case on whether or not the individual mandate is constitutional under the commerce clause with the court saying no, it isn't, but as the attorney general also mentioned, we lost on the taxing power and for small business owners i represent, their two top issues for decades have been health insurance costs and taxes. so for them, yesterday was truly the darkest of days because although i think some of our members actually i know some of our members appreciate the victory that we got on curbing commerce -- congress' power under the commerce clause, whether -- it's really -- commerce clause justifying it versus taxing power for them is really a distinction without a difference,

nfib has conducted surveys. but we have seen every time is a lack of sales as well as taxes and uncertainty. uncertainty has continued to rise over the past several months. as a result small-business owners who typically get us out of tough times by hiring are sitting on the sidelines. as a result, that will happen.

but the nfib is very clear. our guys do not like obamacare.yn: and so what kind of backlash are they likely to face if the decision comes out on thursday and the decision doesn't go as the administration wants? >> frankly, none. megyn: what's the point of this letter? >> an attempt to get out in front and be critical of this group -- megyn: saying it's partisan, they don't really represent small business, it's a karl rove thing. is there evidence? >> none that i know of. megyn: so they're tarring them with a republican, right-leaning sort of agenda. >> i would hesitate to use the word propaganda, but that comes pretty close. the administration's view, this is how small business really feels, not the way they say they feel through the nfib. propaganda is a very strong word, but it's an attempt to intimidate before you get this big decision on thursday. megyn: well, they may be too late because nothing the nfib can do right now even if they wanted to bow down concern. >> it's the political reaction to it. megyn: it's exciting, right? we're going

we couldn't have done it of course without a tremendous partner with nfib. for one, we questioned whether or not we would even have standing to bring a claim. nfib did and some people involved in small businesses in this country were able to step up and get involved also. so this was a true team effort that began on shaky grounds that even when we filed the lawsuit, we were ridiculed, criticized, condemned, given short shrift, mocked. we were told that the lawsuit was going to be quickly dismissed. there was no grounds whatsoever. everyone knows that since the time of fdr, the commerce clause has been expanded and congress can do whatever they want to do, and all that tune changed when we finally got that federal district court ruling in florida agreeing with us that obamacare was unconstitutional. those attitudes changed even more when the federal court of appeals upheld that and then changed even more when the pundits saw the vigor that was used by the justices on the u.s. supreme court when we went through the three days of oral arguments. well, to go thr

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we could not have done it without nfib. we questioned whether we would have standing to bring a claim. nfib did, and some people involved, and small businesses in this country were able to get involved. it began on shaky grounds. even when we filed a lawsuit, we were ridiculed, criticized, condemned, mocked. we were told that the lawsuit would be quickly dismissed. there were no grounds whatsoever. congress could do whatever they wanted to do. all of that changed when we finally got that federal district court ruling in florida agreeing with us that obamacare was unconstitutional. those attitudes change when the federal court of appeals upheld that. but they changed even more when the pundits saw the figure that was used by the justices on the u.s. supreme court when we went through the three days of oral arguments. to go through some of the issues decided by the case road quick and put them into context, one is the individual mandates. the individual mandates for us were the focal point of this lawsuit. we thought we would

according to a recent nfib survey, the recession was hard on women-owned businesses. about a half, or 49% of those, that are still in business, have lowered their real volume sales -- have l'oreal volume sales today than they did in 2007, before the recession began. but as the country works to get back to better times, it's the small business owner who holds the key. after every recession, small business has led our nation to recovery. as you can imagine, over the past several years, people like you, people like your bosses, have asked small business owners what can the government do to help you create more jobs and their answer has been almost universe a. get out of our way. yet, here we are on the cusp of one of the most historic decisions and the supreme court's history that really deals with this very fundamental principle. of how big we want our government to be, and how much we want our government to control our personal choices, our business choices, how we use our hard-earned dollars. our founders did fight a war to secure these freedoms, and upon securing tha

nfib has never liked answering questions. in 2006 in an article in the national seen, the organization claimed 600,000 members and businesses nationwide. today on its website it claims 300,000. but when we asked nfib to disclose where its money comes from, instead of providing us the courtesy of a written response, the group told the press that its membership has been growing by leaps and bounds since the lawsuit began. it described that shrinking 50% as a big new expansion. and it said new members have made small donations that covered the cost of a complex lawsuit before the supreme court. in other words, nfib won't tell us the truth about who it represents or how big it is. what does it have to hide? our democracy has always been about people. it's been about families and individuals and who they choose to represent their interests. it's about what kind of country we want to live in, not the kind of country the wealthy choose for us. today as we prepare for the supreme court ruling on affordable care act, millions of ameri

. >> and jason you are watching the nfib? >> we are if we can get past some of this in europe.vey that covers how small businesses are feeling and what they're going to likely be doing in the future. it has been sluggish recently and will probably continue to be sluggish for a while but it has been getting better. >> they are all coming in. nice. very efficient. stephanie, eric, glaet. thanks for getting us up to speed on what will be important tomorrow. >> the great recession spared no one. >> it's not your imagination if you are feeling it still. we will explain who the shock waves hurt the most when we come back. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. with scottrader streaming quotes, any way you want. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every

according to a recent nfib survey, the recession was hard on the women owned businesses.about half or 49% of those that are still in business have lowered the real volume sales, lower the real volume sales today than they did in 2007 before the recession began. as the country work to get back to better time it's the small business owner that holds the key. after a brief recession, small business has led our nation to recovery. as you can imagine over the past several years, people like you, people like your boss have asked small-business owners what can the government to to help you create more jobs? and their answer has been almost universal coming get out of our way. yet here we are on the cusp of one of the most historic decisions in the supreme court history that really deals with this very fundamental principal of how big we want our government to be and how much we want our government to control our personal places, our business choices, how we use our hard-earned dollars. our fin founders have a war to secure the freedom upon securing the independence they sought t

you could see a plunge in the nfib small business survey, you've seen a steady uptrend in governmentrements, regulation red tape, concerns about taxes, the combination of those two are twice the concern about weak demand from small businesses, so no surprise that the nfib participated in this lawsuit. and small business hiring definitely slowed, which is generally a key driver of the recovery in the labor market. so this whole plan really played a significant role in our view in impairing the recovery in the labor market and it continues to play a role in weak small business confidence and weak large business confidence to some extent. so we think this is at the core of all of that massive public policy uncertainty which according to the baker index anyway is at unprecedented levels and really is the reason why capital spending is a percentage of profits, revenues, or relative to depreciation is at record lows. >> barry, this may be bad. in your view, for business and small business, but it isn't to say it creates more uncertainty. certainly it creates less uncertainty. we know those

nfib joined the lawsuit at the supreme court against the health care legislation. she is argued passionately on behalf of small business owners. as an associate at olson frank and weda she specialized in food and drug laws and represent ited several small businesses. she also worked as an assistant press secretary for senator don nickels of oklahoma. she received her b.a. from the university of oklahoma in 1989 and her j.d. from the george washington law school in 1995. our next speaker is an outspoken activist against the oppression of the cuban government. she and her family were put into prison immediately following the bay of pigs invasion. the family was able to escape after two months, made their way to the united states and eventually settled in the d.c. area. she now travels to cuba on a yearly basis to visit her relatives and friends and takes clothing and medicine to the local churches there. she has appeared on bbc and univision, and has also been covered in publications like the "frederick news post to attack and other -- "frederick news post." she is n

nfib has conducted surveys. but we have seen every time is a lack of sales as well as taxes and uncertainty. uncertainty has continued to rise over the past several months. as a result small-business owners who typically get us out of tough times by hiring are sitting on the sidelines. as a result, that will happen. we have a member in new jersey who has 47 employees and has said that if this law is upheld, he will not be growing. he cannot afford to grow. he cannot afford to get to 50 because he is facing the employee mandates. our members operate on razor- thin margins. these people are not driving cadillacs and eating fancy dinners every night. they are just getting by. they do not have a lot of discretionary dollars to spend on of that is coming toward them. namely, the employer mandates. for those with 50 or more, they will have to pay a fine of $2,000 per employee if they do not cover them with health insurance. there is the mall-business health-insurance tax that will be levied on our members. if you are

national federation of independent business, small-business legal center along with 26 states, the nfib joined the lawsuit against the whole kill legislation. karen has argued passionately on behalf of small business owners and their rights to own and operate business. assonances yet, she specialist in food and drug law and assisted trade associations for congress and federal agencies. she also works as an assistant press secretary for senator don nickels from oklahoma. she receives her b.a. from the university of oklahoma in 1989 and her jd from the george washington law school in 1995. our next speaker, lala mooney, is an outspoken activist against the oppression of the cuban government. lala and her family were put into prison in 1961, immediately following the bay of pigs invasion. the family was able to use cade after two months, made their way to the united states and eventually settled in the d.c. area. she now truffles to cuba on a yearly basis to visit her relatives and friends and takes clothing and medicine to the local churches. she has appeared on bbc and has also been cove

. >> with respect to one of your arguments that my friend from the nfib is a significant problem and i think their arguments are the constitutionality of the power is essentially the affordable care act provision the same thing now is the provision that was held unconstitutional. but on the same day as drexel furniture the court issued against george that provision the court had concluded that it was invalid under the tax power. the reason for that has been clear. now after williams packing and bob jones and that in order to find the antiinjunction act doesn't apply to something that otherwise would be the trigger you have to include there is no substantial argument that can be made in defense of it at tax. you don't have that here so you can't get around the antiinjunction act of the court were to read it has suggested should be read on that theory. >> the basic question about the argument if you're right about the second part that is for the purposes of the statute this penalty does not constitute a tax. then does the court need to decide whether it is the antiinjunction act and ot

we have the nfib tomorrow morning. we have the cpi and ppi numbers coming in.e expecting a decline in inflation. that's going to add to real growth. so like retail sales is coming in later this week. supposed to be a 0.5% decline. when we get done adjusting for inflation, it's going to be an increase. and consumer sentiment. here's the updated look at gdp. we don't compare it to last week. do we have that chart? we do it. fantastic. the q4 numbers keep coming down. i think that's significant. if you overlay a political look on this thing is there's no pop in growth expected. we're still going to be -- we're going from a 1.9 -- those are the two actuals, may be upgraded just a little bit. but there's no surge expected here. 2% is where we are. 2% is where we're going to be. at 2%, i don't think it's low enough to bring them in. everybody else thinks i'm wrong, that the fed comes in in june. yeah, christine romer said it has to be. i want to talk about the controversy over what the president said. the private sector is just fine. >> which -- >> i think i know whe