EDITOR:Let's face it - raising taxes and cutting government costs will not effectively reduce our historic national debt if we don't boost the economy and put more Americans back to work.The U.S. Senate should immediately disregard any proposed legislation that would work against those two primary objectives. One proposal that should be taken off the table is the call to target oil and gas companies with unfair tax increases. While it may be cloaked in terms such as close loopholes and end subsidies, the truth is that these tax increases would take away the same business tax deductions that every …