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I commend you for volunteering you expertise.

Here's another one for you:

Due to a less-than-successful surgery (euphenism) in 1989, my wife is in severe chronic pain and cannot work. She collects Social Security Disability - about $800/mo. Peanuts compared to what she used to make.

My question - why should we have to pay taxes on that money? Hasn't that money <i>already</i> been deducted from our paychecks once? And why is paying taxes on it dependent on <i>my</i> income? We never had to claim it until my income reached a certain level. Seems like the gov't is double dipping us on that - and since there's nothing deducted beforehand, we get the added burden of never getting refunds anymore - it's all "additional income." I realize I could have more deductions on my paycheck every payday, but this seems really unfair.

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