Brett Cooper
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I do have concerns as do a lot of people online.
And many people think that this whole idea is just way too messy.
One person commented and said, honest question, why not just ban OnlyFans in Florida?
Another person said, honestly, insane politicians are resulting to shit like this to stir up controversy and engagement farm.
Rather than outright banning use of the platform in Florida, let's tax the one to five Floridians that actually were successful from OnlyFans and claim that it's going towards the school systems.
Like Miami isn't fueled from drugs and prostitution.
Now, obviously both of these are good points.
And my personal biggest concern is that we already cannot trust our government to appropriately distribute the taxes that we already pay.
So how will this be any different?
And it is a point that Sophie actually made in her video, which you guys saw earlier in her response.
because, of course, he is running for office, is arguing that under him as governor, it would be clear, it would be honest, it would be transparent, it would go towards raising teachers' salaries and things like that.
Who knows is what every politician says when they're running for office, so who knows?
We'll have to see him actually do the job to know.
But moving on to arguably the more important point, the second concern is that taxing things just outright that politicians deem sinful or improper is a slippery slope.
That is what a lot of people are arguing when they are talking to Fishback about this idea.
If we do it to porn, then they might turn around and say, Brett, you know, what you talk about on YouTube is inappropriate.
We deem it improper, so we are now going to take 50% of your income.
And their second concern there is the one that has most people hung up online, specifically on right-wing Twitter, and it is understandable.
And this actually, funnily enough, sparked a whole debate on my own team about everybody's thoughts on this issue.
Now, the two main sides of this debate that I just broke down can be summed up between these two comments.