Brett Cooper

Now to even further this conversation, some people were bringing up taxing the other party.

One woman, Wendy O on X said, I agree.

I don't hate that at all.

And this is also something that is fairly common that is not out of left field because in some states, these sin taxes, these excise taxes, which we have been talking about, can be applied to both the manufacturer and the consumer or either or.

But at the end of the day, the consumers almost always end up paying more because of the manufacturers and the producers are taxed.

They'll just raise their prices to cover that break.

So anyway, in some way, shape or form, the consumer will always be taxed.

Now to bring everything back to this whole debate, the point that I kept seeing come up specifically on right wing Twitter, the point that was brought up on my own team was the potential that attacks like this could be politicized, that it was setting a precedent for something that would only hurt us, that would bite us as Republicans in the ass later on.

The dangers of pornography is most often in 2026, you know, a right wing talking point.

So if we do something like this that is really polarizing, that is, you know, politicized, is controversial, what is then stopping somebody on the left from one day taxing something of ours that they hate?

And will we not like that?

And now we've created this whole precedent and this whole slippery slope.

Like somebody said, I get where he's coming from, but using taxes to disincentivize bad behavior is a progressive tactic.

We should just ban porn outright.

I will never support increasing taxes.

Sorry.

And again, philosophically, I get that.

But per usual, the left is already one step ahead, as they often are, because when they have power, they actually wield it.

And so, a couple of years ago, they started taxing the firearm industry and its consumers.

Just take a look at this headline from 2024.