I am utterly shocked and dismayed to report to you all that a GOP political hopeful in Florida is doing a hypocrisy. From a party that loves “small government” and “free markets,” one would think they’d be all about a scrappy entrepreneur getting that cash. But it turns out that if the entrepreneur in question is a woman selling nudes on the internet, it’s a five-alarm fire that necessitates a 50% tax on all income earned from said nudes. That’s right: an aspiring politician has proposed what he’s calling a “sin tax” on all OnlyFans creators living and hustling in Florida, and it should surprise you not at all to hear that the bulk of the pushback is coming from his fellow conservatives.

So here’s the skinny: a long-shot GOP gubernatorial candidate named James Fishback has just announced that if he wins office, he’ll be proposing a 50% “OnlyFans sin tax” on all OF creators who call Florida home. He claims that the tax would raise roughly $200 million for Florida public schools and would discourage what he’s referring to as “online degeneracy.” His big shiny campaign promise here is that he’d start taxing OnlyFans creators during his first year in office. Two things: 1) Florida politicians have a way of showing love to Florida schools when they need moral cover for one thing or another, and 2) did he do ANY research on just how many of his would-be constituents rely on OnlyFans for income or entertainment?

Clearly not, because he’s getting blowback from the last person anyone expected to show up to the party. Anya Lacey is a 19-year-old conservative who creates “trad wife” content on OnlyFans. She built her platform by leaning into “traditional” femininity, domestic labor aesthetics, and conservative gender values. She’s not at all a progressive critic and actually aligns with many GOP voters and their values, making her that much harder to dismiss when she called Fishback a hypocrite with her full chest. Tradwife culture shares significant overlap with GOP ideals: marriage-forward values, traditional gender roles, and no shortage of anti–“modern feminism” rhetoric. If a tradwife poster child, the would-be darling of that particular voter base, is showing up to call an OnlyFans tax hypocritical, then the policy is truly indefensible. Lacey calls the tax a moral hypocrisy, not a sound fiscal policy. A tradwife I will never be, but I’ve got to be honest with you, I’m with her on this one.

Shall we count the ways in which this particular policy is a big ol’ bundle of hypocritical bologna? Well, for starters, Florida’s economy has LONG been built on the backs of “morally questionable” industries. Tourism may generate revenue, but it robs local populations of being able to fully utilize their own resources. Alcohol… well. I shouldn’t have to elaborate on that one, but up to 13% of adult deaths in Florida are attributed to alcohol use. Strip clubs and adult entertainment production? No tax proposed on those, even though they’re producing similar material to what is found on OnlyFans, and strip clubs even have the added bonus of featuring alcohol AND naked depravity. But sure! Let’s exclusively charge OnlyFans creators half their income in order to continue doing the work that pays them. Anya Lacey also pointed out in her criticism that the city of Miami was essentially built on cocaine money, and nobody batted an eye when the city benefitted from that lovely bit of devil dealings. See also: in the United States, over half of the adult population has consumed porn. Twenty-seven percent of U.S. adults took a peek within the last month alone, according to self-reported numbers. Imagine if we also calculated the consumption of everyone who doesn’t openly fess up to utilizing a digital spank bank.

There is no denying that OnlyFans is everyone’s favorite naughty corner of the internet, but there’s this misconception that the platform is exclusively for porn and explicit content. That is, simply put, erroneously untrue. Anya Lacey pointed out that she herself shares non-explicit content like fishing videos, baking-related content, and images featuring her pets. Anya’s SFW content poses the question of whether or not the platform itself is the sin, and if not, how the hell does Fishback intend to differentiate between who does pay the “sin tax” and who gets to carry on with business as usual? If racy content is the barometer for who pays more money to exist in Florida, then will he charge all movies featuring nude scenes a 50% tax on all income earned at Florida box offices? Will companies who run sexy ads on Instagram have to pay half of their Florida-based revenue in taxes? I’m willing to bet my favorite bra that he doesn’t actually hate nudie content so much as he hates the idea of women being able to be financially independent due to his affinity for nudie content (and my favorite bra was NOT CHEAP, so you know I mean business here).

Why are we calling the proposed measure a “sin tax” when it really only targets creators on one very specific platform? Where are the proportional taxes for alcohol? What about tobacco? Weed? Strip clubs? Lacey brought up the point of wondering whether Florida-based adult studios will be taxed the same as OnlyFans creators, and I too would like the answer to that question. Because unless some other hefty morality taxes are brought forth for consideration, this is punishment, not regulation.

The real issue here is that politicians like Fishback aren’t so much looking to improve the morality of their region. They’re looking to control people, usually women. OnlyFans makes its money as a platform by taking a 20% cut of creator earnings, and Fishback wants to take another 50%? Bitch, please. Creators already pay income and self-employment taxes, not to mention having to fully cover their own production expenses. A 50% tax on all OnlyFans earnings wouldn’t just drive creators—and again, let’s remember that they’re mostly women—out of business. It would be a brutal blow to the Florida economy.

Had Fishback done his research properly, he would know that Florida has one of the largest OnlyFans creator populations in the United States. OnlyFans creators’ taxes are already contributing significantly to state income via federal pass-throughs, and local economies see a significant amount of money spent by those creators who call Florida home. Florida is already benefitting from sales taxes on production, travel, and housing. He wants to talk about how public schools could benefit from punishing OnlyFans creators? They’re already propping up public systems with their tax dollars, and they’re not being holier-than-thou jerks about it.

I have to come clean about something. I wasn’t actually at all shocked that something like this is a thing. Politicians who are trying to get elected have a knack for grabbing at the most controversial apple on the tree. This apple just happens to be one that I fully anticipate backfiring on Fishback in a very real way. Kudos to Anya Lacey for saying what many creators are thinking, because when even your tradwives are calling “bullshit,” it’s well past time to rethink your policy.