Fair Thee Not

If you listened strictly to mainstream blogs and the media, you'd think that it was only the Republicans who were being intransigent these days. And to a certain extent, they'd be right (the Republicans' boneheadedness regarding taxes, for instance). But, I'm telling you here, I saw something on C-Span the other night in which the Democrats looked like the unreasonable team.........................................................................................The Republicans, folks, are putting forth a proposal in which people who get a subsidy for health insurance (at a rate determined by the Affordable Care Act), if in fact their income goes up precipitously during the year, have to pay a small percentage of that subsidy back. For example, if a family starts off at $50,000 a year and gets a $8,000 subsidy, but one of the family members goes back to work and/or gets a huge raise up to, say, $80,000 a year (in which the subsidy goes down to $1,000 - approximately), under the Republicans' proposal, that family would have to pay $700 back to the government (a paltry 10%)..........................................................................................I mean, I don't know, maybe I'm missing something here. But how, pray tell, is it fair for a family that makes $80,000 a year for 11 months to get a significantly better subsidy than a family that makes $80,000 a year for 12 months? The Democrats are always talking about fairness, no? How in the hell is that frigging fair?