[RockyMtnMan]

Remember when the high income earning (white-collar) workers are out of a job everyone else foots the tax bill. They don't go out a create small businesses when the economic outlook is poor either.

[TopQuark]

Remember when the high income earning (white-collar) workers are out of a job everyone else foots the tax bill.

What on earth does that mean?

Those fellows unloading ships on the West coast -- yes, those that were recently on strike --- make $130,000 per annum. That's a white collar job?

You do indeed seem to have this particularly elevated esteem for white-collar workers. There importance in the economy is no more and no less great than of any other person.