Ultimately we need 2 reforms in the US that would make so much of this weeping and gnashing moot:
a) No income tax
b) Loser-pays court system
Boy you hit a hot button on #2. I am in a battle right now costing me $2,000 more in legal fees to get a general contractor and a sub-contractor to fix my roof after they screwed it up big time. Both admit the problem was theirs but the sub placed a lien on my house and threaten with his lower than whale poop lawyers to foreclose. Even though I am assured to win, unless the Senate grants contractor amnesty, I have to pay $2,000+ to get them to do it right. Boy a shot gun shell is so much cheaper. I just don't know who to fire it at. The contractors or the lawyers. Hell, buy 2 their cheap.