Washington, DC - Taxing Social Security Benefits

Dear Rusty:  My wife started collecting Social Security at her full retirement age of 66. I am 60 and still working, and I think it is unfair that we must add her Social Security earnings to mine when we file taxes.  She has also worked some this year. Do we need to add this amount she received to our wages when we file?  Signed:  Overtaxed

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Washington, DC - Most measuring instruments are limited by the tradeoff between how precisely and how rapidly a measurement is made: the more precise the measurement, the longer it takes. But because many phenomena occurring at the nanoscale are both rapid and tiny, they demand a measuring system that can capture their precise details in both time and space.

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