As General Motors and the United Auto Workers union negotiate the company's restructuring, there's a third party at the table that should be remembered — the taxpayers. That means efforts to cut costs should take priority over other interests — and the taxpayers' representative, the government, should help make that clear.

The UAW has already made painful concessions and is discussing more.

It is now in a public dispute about GM's plans to import some cars from lower ...

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