# Black is white, night is day, up is down... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2011, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922 "2011-09-20T09:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/1 "2011-09-20T09:43:56Z")
An article attacking the tax-dodging rich and calling out the “job creators” propaganda has somehow slipped through the Fox News censorship panel and appeared on their website ([click](http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/19/jimmy-buffett-rule/#content)): > [@](#): > > peaking from the Rose Garden on Monday, President Obama offered a more populist approach to cutting $3 trillion from the federal debt. His plan includes whacks in war funding and various programs Democrats are usually loathe to trim. It also advances what at any other time would be considered in a perfectly modest suggestion: That people at the very top should kick in too. The president would do this by letting the Bush tax cuts expire for upper-earners and by adding a special new tax on people who earn $1 million-plus a year. > [@](#): > > Here’s an important addendum to the Jimmy Buffett Rule: If you ask the bottom 98 to sacrifice, that’s a prudent fiscal policy. If you ask the top 2 percent to sacrifice, that’s class warfare. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/2 "2011-09-20T13:46:48Z")
“Dogs & cats living together, mass hysteria!” ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/3 "2011-09-20T20:59:36Z")
> [@](#): > > whacks in war funding Whacks on, whacks off. We gotta get that war funding all nice and shiny for the next President. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/4 "2011-09-20T21:59:58Z")
“Jimmy Buffett Rule”? Do tell! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/5 "2011-09-20T22:19:21Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Whacks on, whacks off. We gotta get that war funding all nice and shiny for the next President. Heh heh. “Whacks off.” ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/6 "2011-09-20T22:31:02Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > “Jimmy Buffett Rule”? Do tell! From the cited article: > [@](#): > > Forget Warren Buffett. The coddle-the-rich crowd has now discovered “The Jimmy Buffett Rule.” You know how that works, right? For the folks who own really big sailboats and shelter their wealth on islands with swaying palm trees, it’s always margarita time! Go ahead and squeeze the middle class some more! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-is-white-night-is-day-up-is-down/596922/7 "2011-09-21T01:35:27Z")
Shouldn’t that be called the Charlie Ragel rule?