Herschel Walker has moved his residency from Texas, report says

MISSOURI STANDS ALONE IN PROPOSAL TO TAX FOOD BUT NOT GUNS

Herschel Walker says he doesn’t live in Texas anymore.

The former football star’s change of address, likely to Atlanta, might not have been a big deal except for the fact that there have been calls for an investigation into where he lives following his failed campaign for Senate.

Walker’s relocation out of Tarrant County — which he declared in an application to have a tax break removed from his Westlake home — comes after the former Dallas Cowboys running back’s residency drew national attention when he ran for office in Georgia last year.

Walker, the Republican nominee, lost in a runoff to Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock despite an endorsement from former President Donald Trump and financial support from the likes of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his son Stephen Jones, who together donated almost $6,000 to Walker’s campaign.

Legal questions surrounding Walker’s campaign lingered after the defeat because of a Westlake home, appraised at more than $3 million last year, that he had claimed as his primary residence to receive a homestead exemption.

Atlanta-based WXIA-TV reported Tuesday that Walker applied to have the tax break on the Tarrant County home removed.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri would be the only state in the country that taxes food but does not tax gun sales under a bill being considered by the Missouri Senate.

The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, would exempt sales of firearms and ammunition made in Missouri from all state and local sales taxes.

The Missouri Senate advanced a version of the bill last week that included an amendment that would have eliminated the state’s 1.225% sales tax on non-prepared food. But Missouri Senate Republicans this week employed a rare procedural move to strip the provision saying it would’ve been too expensive.

“The monumental overcoming of that fiscal note would be something too large,” Brattin said on the floor this week, referring to a legislative estimate that found the proposal including the food tax amendment could cost the state more than $373 million beginning in fiscal year 2025.

Missouri Democrats have excoriated the decision to strip out the provision, saying it’s another example of Republicans prioritizing guns over a necessity like groceries. They point out that Brattin’s bill comes as Missouri has seen high rates of gun violence in the state’s urban areas.