Eons ago, a twenty-something me walked out of a dealership because they tried to do a bait and switch on the sales paperwork. As I was leaving, the salesman stood in the doorway to block me from leaving the office. I finally got past him and rushed to lock myself in my car. He then stood behind my car trying to keep…

My Dad grew up dirt poor and is a vicious negotiator. A few years back, through extensive research and rebates and this and that he got a very sweet deal on a very popular car - a fully loaded Honda Accord, which usually sells itself.

My all time favorite example of this was an acquaintance's mother who as VP was charged with buying a new fleet of vehicles for the company. She did some research, went to the dealership, did test drives and talked specks, and finally settled on a car, but before she could explained that she wanted a dozen of them,…

Yep. I love these assholes that are all "gung ho" for the free market and then insist that they can't do business with wage transparency when one of the first fucking rules of functioning free markets is symmetrical information.

My husband and I were negotiating for a car about ten years ago. It took longer than expected and I had to leave for work. After I left, the salesman made an offer, to which my husband said he needed to discuss it with me. The salesman told him to prove he was a man and show me who is boss by making the decision…

I have the same strategy, which thankfully worked for me (albeit after a few patronizing stops along the way). I ended up buying my car from a young male agent who actually went out of his way to make a car fit my needs. He even did some fancy editing on my existing car's specs so I would get more money from the buy…

but as a woman, how will my employer know they can pay me less?

I know, right? Get after it, Swarovski!

Undocumented immigrants pay taxes. They pay sales taxes, they pay property taxes, many of them pay income taxes. IRS has a humongous file of tax forms with SSNs that don't exist. It's a common fallacy so pervasive as to be malicious that undocumented immigrants don't pay into the system, just as it a fallacy that they…

That's quite obviously not true. Everyone in the US who engages in economic activity is paying some taxes to some government agency. Sales and property taxes are completely impossible to avoid unless you are sleeping under a bridge and eating out of dumpsters.

You think undocumented migrants don't pay taxes? REALLY? Are you really that completely ignorant of how taxes in the US are collected?

Let me clue you in — it is impossible to engage in substantive economic activity in the US, no matter your status, without paying taxes. At a minimum, an undocumented worker will pay…

I've gone to school with kids who can't even get loans because they came to the country when they were very small children. I just think it's disgusting that we don't consider young people who are more American than anything else as full citizens.

From the few ill eagles I've had the pleasure of meeting, even if they could get those benefits, they wouldn't. They are already terrified of getting found out, and they aren't going to risk drawing attention to themselves like that.

Ok, I don't know where this shit about undocumented immigrants not paying taxes comes from (actually I do). A few years ago my brother worked with some undocumented immigrants at a restaurant, their checks had the same taxes taken out as everyone else's. The fact is, undocumented immigrants with jobs do pay taxes,…

For reals, yo. I've lived in TN my whole life, and about two eyes ago when I was working at a restaurant making just over $9, I didn't qualify for welfare assistance, foodstamps, or TennCare because I made too much money. I didn't blame some undocumented immigrants for that, I blamed the asshole conservatives…

I live in Texas and my family's been here since the borders changed and some of my relatives were moved to Indian reservations. So yes I am well aware of people coming over here to steal our resources and escape bad situations.

And my point is ILLEGALS CAN'T FUCKING GET WELFARE. Does being a racist and being willfully ignorant go hand-in-hand?

They can't, you stupid shit. At least not in Indiana.

Because maybe, just maybe, the government decided you made enough money to not warrant welfare? But of course, you're a victim too though. Those damn illegals, right?

"Illegals"?