But it has everything to do with lawsuits, which is what TTBit claims makes everything so much cheaper. There are few regulations and lots of lawsuits, and that's adding a 30% overhead to the price of the product.

I realise most of you with just rationalise this away and say that the market just isn't free enough (that's always the problem). It's the same excuse as the communist use. When things don't work out as you expected the problem is always that the implementation of the ideology hasn't been taken far enough.