John Fairbanks: The $4,000 promise

Editor’s note: This op-ed is by John Fairbanks, a Vermonter currently living and working in Washington, D.C.
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin famously, if not originally, observed that “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”
Other current events notwithstanding, I would add one more certainty: outlandish promises on tax cuts.
Congress recently approved a budget resolution in a parliamentary maneuver that allows $1.5 trillion to be added to the defic