Your income is combined on a joint return. The taxable amount of SS on 6b may be close to your spouse's amount, but that is coincidence. It is just using the total and calculating how much of both of your SS amounts became taxable as a result of the other income you entered. They are not singling your wife out and taxing only her SS.
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