Sophie Rain didn’t log onto the internet to get lectured by a guy running for Florida governor, yet here we are. Florida’s 2026 GOP primary already has its headline-grabbing pitch: gubernatorial candidate James Fishback wants a 50% “sin tax” on OnlyFans earnings in the state. He says Florida could use the revenue to boost public school teacher wages and upgrade school lunches, and he’s pitching it as a moral course correction. “It is called a ‘sin tax’ because it is a sin, number one, but the purpose of the sin tax in economics is to disincentivize and deter a behavior,” Fishback told NXR Studios, calling OnlyFans an “online degeneracy platform.”
Then he went for the full sermon. “And yes, as Florida governor, I don’t want young women who could otherwise be mothers raising families, rearing children, I don’t want them to be selling their bodies to sick men online. And I don’t want young, impressionable men who have strayed from Christ, who have strayed from our Lord and savior to be told, and to be drawn into lust, and have their entire brain rewired.”
Rain, 21, answered with the kind of clarity that cuts through a campaign soundbite. In an exclusive statement shared with PEOPLE, she called the proposal “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of,” and added, “How do you charge a sin tax to a Christian who hasn’t sinned?” She also didn’t love the part where a 31-year-old politician tries to parent her career choices: “No one ever forced me to start an OnlyFans, it was MY decision, so I don’t need a 31-year-old man telling me I can’t sell my body online,” she said. “I am a Christian, God knows what I am doing, and I know he is happy with me, that’s the only validation I need.”
If you’re watching this and thinking, OK, but can this even work, you’re not alone. OnlyFans creators operate as independent contractors and file their own taxes, which makes a state-level grab for 50% “administratively complex,” per the Independent Business Times. Fishback also hasn’t released a draft bill or explained enforcement.
Rain thinks the idea collapses on contact with reality: “the second that bill gets on the senate floor it will be the ‘last of its kind.’ ” She also points out a basic flaw: “Also, why are you taxing the creator, why not the subscriber?! By that logic, this makes no sense,” adding, “Florida is OnlyFans central. You are just going to drive them out of the state, then what?”
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