This morning on CNBC they played a statement by Steve Mnuchin,Trumps Treasury Secretary that
if the president's tax reform plan was not passed Markets will tank. He claimed that the current markets have built into them that the Tax Reform bill will pass. Everyone who spoke after his 'warning' has said just the opposite including all their analysts. Everyone on the program who was asked about markets tanking if the bill doesn't pass said that no one expects that the bill will pass in its current form, and if it did it would create deficits so large that would cause markets to fall. No one believes that rate of growth projected in the plan. No one believes that business will make the investments at the rate they are claiming, and that nobody believes the claims that supposedly will trickle down to workers will happens.
So it seems that the president has surrounded himself with people who lie just like he does. I'm just glad that CNBC didn't tow the administration's line and lie about it trying to spook the public.
Who knows though. What might make the markets and the economy tank is if people like Mnuchin and other Cabinet members keep flying around in those private jets at taxpayer expense. That might be enough to bankrupt the Treasury. Maybe that should be Mnuchin's concern, not passing a tax bill that is targeted towards the 1% crowd. 
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