Florida Candidate Proposes 50% Tax on OnlyFans Income (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Never in my whole life did I think that I would wake up and see a Florida politician trying to start beef with me for clout. OnlyFans creator Sophie Rain got into an argument on social media with a Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate about his proposed tax on OnlyFans creators.

[00:00:16] Speaker 2: If you're an OnlyFans model and you reside in Florida, get ready to pay 50 percent of your income to the state.

[00:00:24] Speaker 1: James Fishback proposed a 50 percent so-called sin tax on OnlyFans creators in Florida, which would be on top of existing taxes.

[00:00:32] Speaker 2: It is called a sin tax because it is a sin, number one. But the purpose of a sin tax in economics is to disincentivize and deter a behavior.

[00:00:42] Speaker 1: In a post directed at creator Sophie Rain, he argued the tax could help fund priorities like teacher pay and school lunches. Rain criticized his proposal in a video response.

[00:00:51] Speaker 3: And I would be more than happy to pay that if multibillion dollar corporations were also being properly taxed.

[00:00:57] Speaker 1: But surprise, they're not. The back and forth has drawn millions of views as Fishback, a hedge fund investment executive with limited political experience, seeks to elevate his campaign on a national stage.