The tax on social security retirement benefits is one of the most despicable things our government has done to the citizenry.
How do we let them get away with taxing our income twice?
Estate taxes are exactly the same type of obscenity. We’re trained to hate the people with wealth so we won’t make a big fuss about such things.
Well, someone's income at any rate.
As for how they get away with it: Nobody's repealed Sutton's Law.