More than a few observers last month remarked that raising taxes, and giving Congress even more money to spend, is akin to handing a bottle of whiskey to a habitual drunk. They’re probably right — and the comparison just might point in a helpful direction. Tens of millions of addicts, helpless to reform themselves flying solo, have found sanity through twelve-step programs. It may be time for the federal government to make the same discovery. Sound silly? No sillier than letting the feds spend one-quarter of the nation’s gross domestic product with little to show for it. Aided by an...