WINONA Minn. – On Day One of the 2023 Legislature, State Senator Jeremy Miller plans to introduce a bill to eliminate the state income tax on Social Security income for seniors. In a radio station KWNO interview. Miller, a Winona Republican, called the current state tax a redundancy. Seniors, he said, already paid taxes on their original income, some which comes back to them through the federal Social Security program. The state tax, he said, is unfair double taxation on the same income. Miller characterized the plan as his priority for 2023, mentioning no other initiatives in the open-ended 15-minute interview. Miller predicted bipartisan support for the plan this time — despite simultaneously demonizing Democrats for the relief plan failing in the 2022 session. He made no mention of his own pivotal leadership in the meltdown of 2022 budget negotiations that included Social Security relief.
Miller. No rocket science here. Already 39 states don’t tax Social Security income for seniors.