February 28 - A New Financial Transaction Tax Will Cover One Third of the Sequester; A Veteran Investigative Journalist Takes us Inside the Church of Scientology

We begin with the Wall Street Trading and Speculators Tax Act introduced today by Senator Tom Harkin that would generate $352 billion in revenues over nine years. Micah Hauptman, the Financial Policy Counsel at Public Citizen joins us to discuss how a tax of 3 cents on every $100 of speculative trading via high speed computers could bring “human” investors back, stabilize markets and reduce predatory trading.

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Then Lawrence Wright joins us in the studio. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of a new book, just out, “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief”. We discuss this new and incredibly wealthy church that the IRS has designated as a tax-exempt religion, to try to determine its secret belief systems and what it contributes to mankind as a religion. We investigate the brutal and sadistic tactics it employs against its own followers and former members. And while many of its members, who are trapped in secret locations work around the clock for slave wages, the Church’s leader lives the lavish lifestyle of a billionaire, cultivating Scientology’s celebrity front-men Tom Cruise and John Travolta.