How much will taxpayers shoulder?

[eppie]

But, when the people who are doing it are cheating the system and creating a trade vacuum then our government has an obligation to stop it. They are not.

Isn't this all a bit of a useless discussion? Countries also decrease interest rates if they think it is necesarry to influence the economy right? And part of the riches of west european countries were obtained by plundering Afrika and Asia, and together with the US (and now also China) often still are . Bummer that the Chinese are now using their own tactics, but as long as we can't afford to boycot them we won't.
Same for all the immoral muslim extremistic middle east countries. Everybody with the right mind would want to have nothing to do with a country like Saudi Arabia untill they stop chopping peoples hands off and give women the same rights as men).....but we need their oil so we choose not to bother them with it.

I agree with the fact that ideally we need to have fair rules for everybody.....but realise that we can impossibly keep our current level of wealth.

Hope this makes sense..