It costs money to make stuff in the USA. When you pay people more than $35/day, dont just dump your hazardous waste on the ground outside your shop door, give your workers crazy protective equipment like respirators, dont buy your electricity from powerplants that are killing you with their emissions, and things like that then it adds up over time.
I worked for two different steel recycling mill not that long ago- one made rebar for bridges, buildings, roadways, etc. The other made steel wire . The places were constantly in upheaval and the workers were constantly giving back wages, benefits, quality of life, etc to try and compete with chinese steel. They bought scrap metal as the feed stock. When the trucks came in the loads where inspected. If the material was too crappy then they got turned away. The trucks would just turn around and drive to the port and dump their inferior load in a ship bound for china. The inferior raw material would get shipped half way around the world and get made into rebar or wire and then get shipped half way around the world to be sold here. Neither steel mill is in business any more becasue they couldn't compete. It's just crazy cheaper to make stuff in china than it is in the US. If you are in business in China, you can ship the raw material from here to there, then send the finished good back, eat that transportation cost and tie your money up for months longer, and still pound the American company to death.
That said- retail price has little to do with actual cost to produce the product. If your own a business then you charge what you think will make you the most money. If you think you can make $100 profit per piece and sell 1/50th of the amount it's still a better decision to do that rather than selling 50 for $1 profit each. It's the same reason that apple charges significantly more per smarthphone than a different brand with a similar cost parts list- they've decided that letting others duke it out over the bottom of the market is fine and they'll make plenty at the top end. It's hard to argue that apple has made poor choices in which market segment to target.
Similarly the JGC is priced one way and the Durango is priced another even though they get built of many of the same parts on the same assembly line by the same people.
If you dont like the price someone charges than don't buy what they are selling.
If you think you can open a shop and make a decent living making commodity items in the US and selling them for something closer to Chinese prices than go for it. But the fact that such products are hard to come by makes me think it's a smidge more complicated than implying unscrupulous people are robbing the public for sport by writing "made in the USA" on the box.
JMHO
but IMHO if you're lifted you'll never feel any handling improvement from strut tower braces.
