I have seen some nonsensical posts from you in the past, but that takes the cake. Your worldview is so skewed.

Fact: the couple mentioned would be able to afford nice property in a nice area, a large house, a new car, and health insurance in Ohio or many other places.

This has nothing to do with "contributing to society" in a larger sense, its about contributing to the affluent lifestyles of politically favored people.

I mean hey, I would love to move up to Stamford or Manhattan (pre anti gun frenzy I did anyhow) but I dont make the 350k/yr required to comfortably do so. Maybe I can convince people that they need to subsidize my desire to live in super expensive areas by claiming that if they dont, they dont support contributing toward an orderly and open opportunity society? Hmmm... /strokes beard.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)