State Senator Grant Hauschild Can’t Keep His Hands Off Your Social Security Check

When Hermantown-area State Senator Grant Hauschild first ran for the Minnesota Senate in 2022, he knew seniors in the Northland needed a leader to eliminate the unfair double-tax on Social Security benefits.

At the time, Minnesota was one of only 11 states to tax these benefits that seniors receive after an entire career of paying into the system. Grant Hauschild campaigned on helping seniors keep their benefits they worked hard for, only to betray them immediately when he got into office.

(From Grant Hauschild’s 2022 campaign website.)

Within Grant Hauschild’s first month in office, Republicans attempted to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits. Grant Hauschild spoke during the debate saying:

“This is one of my top priorities.”

“This is an issue a lot of us agree on.”

“I live in… one of the oldest districts in the state. I’m acutely aware of how important this issue is for our seniors.”

“It was one of the top issues I ran on.”

After making these comments, Grant Hauschild sided with metro liberals by voting to BLOCK the bill fully eliminating the unfair taxing of social security benefits. Instead, he argued that the Senate Taxes committee, which he was a member of, had to further work on the issue before passing a bill.

However, despite Grant Hauschild currently leading the Senate Taxes committee as Vice Chair, a bill fully eliminating the tax on Social Security benefits has never passed to the Senate Floor.

Instead, Grant has worked with the Democrat chair of the committee who commented that her party has an “insatiable appetite to raise taxes." He voted to raise taxes on Minnesotans while spending the entire $18 billion surplus without providing this desperately needed tax relief to seniors.

Today, other states continue to eliminate this unfair tax burden on seniors while Minnesota remains one of only eight states to tax Social Security benefits thanks to Grant Hauschild.

Before Grant ran for the Minnesota Senate in 2022, he was at least more open about his belief that seniors must pay “a fairer share in taxes.” Prior to moving to Minnesota in 2019 and rebranding himself, Grant wrote an article for the Bismarck Tribune arguing to raise the age of retirement.

GRANT HAUSCHILD: "Speaking honestly, the elderly must agree to raise the retirement age."

Minnesota seniors literally can’t afford another term of Grant Hauschild in Office.