Governor, Judges, and Legislators get pay raises, but not Minnesota families

Democrats gave themselves back-to-back pay raises this year and next, while at the same time refusing to give Minnesota’s $19 billion budget surplus back to taxpayers or remove the tax on social security benefits (which they promised they would during the election).

The recommendation to give out raises to top state officials came from a report by the Compensation Council. The council’s 16 members are all appointed by Gov. Walz and the chief justice of Minnesota’s supreme court. Their report concluded that officials’ current pay has not kept up with inflation. That’s likely the case for your pay too.

The pay bump will be the first raise for the governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state auditor, and lieutenant governor since 2016 and will cost taxpayers an additional $810,854 a year, according to the council. The increase will take effect in July of this year.

It’s another edition of: How out of touch can they get? It’s unlikely that Minnesotans’ paychecks have kept us with rising inflation or gas prices or the stock market, so why should politicians get to give themselves a raise, on our dime?

Gov. Walz and Democrats could give Minnesotans relief by giving back the $19 surplus, but they won’t budge. They’ve also flip-flopped on their promise to provide relief for seniors by eliminating the tax on social security benefits. The only thing they want to spend money on is more bureaucracy!