Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
So obviously on the show, we have talked a lot about porn. And if you've been here for a while, even back on comment section, you would know that, you know, we have talked about the women who make it, the companies that exploit those women, the trafficking, the impacts on mental health, specifically men's mental health. And so we finally get to the question, what do we actually do about it?
We're sitting here complaining and lamenting, but what is the solution? Well, James Fishback, who is running for governor in the state of Florida, has an idea. A 50% ho tax. It's not officially called a ho tax, but I much prefer that term and it makes me chuckle. I like the sound of that better.
But basically what Fishback is proposing, if he was to be elected governor, is a 50% sin tax, which would help fund schools and would discourage sex work. And this could be a solution, or many are arguing it could just be another slippery slope.
So all of this started on January 12th when James Fishback announced that if he were to be elected in Florida, he would impose this 50% income tax on OnlyFans workers. And this is the video that he released.
florida governor in year one i will push for the first of its kind only fans sin tax if you are a so-called only fans creator in florida you are going to pay 50 to the state on whatever you so-called earn via that online degeneracy platform and that money that money will be used to fund our education system will be used to fund the crisis pregnancy centers
So I think you guys get the point again, 50% ho tax specifically on OnlyFans workers. Now, what you also need to know about James Fishback, if you've not been following him on social media and noticing what is happening in Florida is that he is running as the alternative anti-establishment Republican candidate against Byron Donalds in Florida.
And while Byron Donald is racking in millions upon millions of campaign donations and he has Washington DC behind him, Fishback's currency is virality. And he is specifically trying to reach Gen Z. And things like this, these viral moments are doing just that. Now anyway, back to the point, Fishback did not just stop there.
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Chapter 2: What is the proposed 50% sin tax on OnlyFans income?
He took it a step further and he specifically targeted one OnlyFans creator, a woman named Sophie Raine who currently lives in Florida and she is actually one of the highest OnlyFans earners on the entire platform. And according to One People article, she has brought in more than 43 million million dollars in her time on OnlyFans.
His article reads, the Florida-based influencer told people about her yearly income, then clocking in at around 43 million, and how it has changed her life. She said that she's been able to buy herself her dream car, a 2024 Porsche GT3, and rents a beautiful waterfront property in Miami. Now I think Fishback saw all of this and he decided to use her as an example.
He tweeted at her and he said, Hey Sophie Raine, pay up or quit OnlyFans. As Florida governor, I will not allow a generation of smart and capable young women to sell their bodies online. And now this sparked an entire back and forth between him and Sophie Raine. It has now gone viral.
She first responded with this and says, sounds like you subscribed and got buyer's remorse after dropping your annual salary on an OnlyFans girl. But she also didn't stop there because then she put out a longer video. This was her response.
So he's proposing a sin tax on bops where we would have to pay 50% to the state on top of the 37 I already paid to the government. And I would be more than happy to pay that if multi-billion dollar corporations were also being properly taxed. But surprise, they're not!
I never usually get into politics, but there are clearly better ways to raise funds from actual corrupt businesses in our country. I think that people also fail to realize that there are so many creators on this platform that do this job because they're struggling. So to tax them like that when they're literally doing it just to support their families is sad.
My favorite part of that entire video is where she says that people do this job to survive and it's so immoral to take 50% of their income. Like, I'm sorry, are there not other options? If you cannot make ends meet, if you cannot afford groceries, I don't think OnlyFans, creating an account, I don't think that that is the only option or actually the best option.
All of that reminds me of something that we talked about last year on the show when Nepo baby Sammy Sheen on her family's reality show said that she wanted to move out of her mom's house but her only two options We're working at a local candy store and going on OnlyFans. She was like, well, I guess that's it. That's the only job I can get. Like, objectively, that is a lie. Like, I'm sorry, Sammy.
I am sorry, Sophie. The only option is not OnlyFans. That is a cope. It is an excuse to make yourself feel better about why you're going into this line of work. honest, at least own it and say, yeah, I'm going into sex work. I want attention and I'm hopefully going to get quick cash by being the vice of millions of men. That is actually what you're doing. So at least just be honest.
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Chapter 3: Who is James Fishback and what is his political stance?
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Like, if you wanna talk about OnlyFans, the company, being taxed, or PornHub, you might say, like, sure, we can give them a sin tax, like what Fishback is proposing, but what then stops those companies from going out and recruiting more OnlyFans creators, or recruiting more subscribers, more men to subscribe to those pages, just to try to recoup their losses? in what they're now paying in taxes.
James Fishback is offering an alternative and saying, let's just stop it right here with the creators. Now again, we do have to admit that while Fishback might have strong feelings on this issue, he could also just be doing this for attention and the shock value, you know, taking a play out of Trump's book, but the thing is, This isn't some grand new idea.
And I think that's what a lot of people are missing online because I'm seeing a lot of comments of saying this would never work. This is crazy. This is completely hypocritical, but Florida is not the only state that is considering this. Take this headline right here. Utah GOP lawmaker pushes 7% porn tax to fund teen mental health services.
My point is this is not a new idea in our current political And while I certainly do want to find a way to curb the production and the distribution of something that is such a net negative on society, I do have thoughts. 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.
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Chapter 4: How did Sophie Raine respond to the tax proposal?
They might say, how do you really know what's a sin? I would say from God, but obviously some people might not agree with that. But these are called excise taxes. and these are mostly imposed on alcohol and tobacco manufacturers, the people who are creating these products and distributing them out into society.
And these laws and these tax rates, they can vary from state to state, by product to product, all of that. And these states will openly use these sin taxes to hopefully better the community. This article reads, states use the revenue from sin taxes to apply towards achieving social and economic goals, what Fishback is talking about doing in Florida.
A few of the ways in which states may use their syntax dollars is through funding gambling and drug-related rehab facilities, building infrastructure, and improving education, which is what he wants to do in Florida.
But again, I understand if people are not convinced, if they do not think that that is a good idea, because these days, all of that money, it might be well-intended, but it might just be sent off to Somali terrorist groups. The point being, Fishpack's idea is not that wild.
Casinos and gambling companies, they have to pay out a percentage of their net revenue on top of all of their normal business taxes. Weed has excise taxes very much like alcohol and tobacco, so do vape products and on and on and on. There are many categories like this.
The Trump administration is actually doing their own version of this kind of disincentivizing as they restrict the purchase of sugary foods, processed foods, sodas on Snap. I would argue that that is a similar strategy of discouraging the population from buying something or using something. So my point in bringing all of that up is that Fishback's idea, in theory, is not new.
What he is proposing right here, though, is just, it's being applied in a new way. And Sophie is arguing, once again, that OnlyFans should pay the cost because it is the company, they are the ones distributing her content. But my response to that would be that she herself is a company. She is allegedly a $43 million a year company.
She is the producer, the manufacturer, if you will, of the content that she sells online and then distributes through the platform of OnlyFans. Now, obviously, what Fishback is wanting to do is a new application of this type of law, but an excise tax on something like pornography, it does not seem totally out of left field considering
the other things that our government and different states do tax. This is literally a practice and an idea that has been around since ancient Greece. Rothels and independent prostitutes paid income tax, which was then used to fund public buildings, monuments, and repair roads.
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Chapter 5: What arguments are made against taxing OnlyFans creators?
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. You can see here, this took place in Colorado, and the article reads, Colorado voters approved Proposition KK on election day, adding a 6.5 excise tax on gun and ammunition sales.
Colorado was not the first state to impose such a tax, but it is the first to do so via a citizen's vote. California, the only other state with an excise tax on gun sales, passed a similar 11% excise tax through Assembly Bill 28, which Governor Newsom signed into law. So taxes have already become weaponized. They are already politicized.
The left has also tried to regulate and suppress the gun industry into extinction. They are weaponizing that. You can't produce this type of ammunition. You can only produce this much, this type of gun. The whole thing is insane, but it's all been happening.
for years, and sure, the state of Tennessee, the federal government, they could tax my YouTube income if they don't like the things that I say, but they could even more easily just de-platform me, and they have already tried to do that time and time again over the last few years.
They have tried, and they have been successful with countless other people, and that is why you should subscribe to CooperConfidential.com because they can't kick me off of my own platform, just saying. With prostitution being the oldest profession in the world, I do not think we're gonna be banning it or getting rid of it anytime soon,
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