Adult film stars speak out on the possibility of porn being taxed to raise money for Trump’s border wall
Last week republican lawmaker Gail Griffin proposed taxing pornography to raise funds to build President Donald Trump’s border wall. Griffin proposed charging $20 for each time viewers want to watch porn online, according to Arizona Republic. It comes as no surprise that adult film stars themselves are less than thrilled with this idea, especially since much of their content is already heavily pirated and the money from their own work would not be going into their own pockets.
MEAWW spoke with Ela Darling, adult film performer and CMO of PVR and Sofia Rose who is the Ultimate BBW Porn Star and International Fetish model, who are both adamantly against what they both call a ridiculous idea. First of all, the porn industry has gone through many changes in the past two decades with almost all of the content being online instead of on DVDs. Many porn stars have adapted to this new model by creating their own content and being subscription based. That said, the industry has taken a massive hit with all of the pirating going on and they not getting paid for much of their online content. Darling spoke on how this would not only affect their industry in a negative way, but the idea is also detrimental to the performers themselves.