Letter to the Editor: Paying other people's taxes not fair to us

“The Sequester is coming! The Sequester is coming!”

Yup, Congress is in a panic over a problem they created, and many in Congress want you and me to pony up. Again.

Some want to cut only non-military discretionary funding – like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, transportation and the like in order to “find” about $1 trillion to balance the federal budget.

Instead of planning on cutting programs and raising taxes on you and me to balance the federal budget, Congress already has a known-to-them remedy at their fingertips if they will close the tax loopholes they have created since...