The Anthony Cumia Show - October 30, 2025


Dump The Dunce Enforce The Fare ｜ 10-26-25


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11 minutes

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1,595

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108

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The mayor of New York wants to make all buses in the city free, and I'm here to give my thoughts on why that's a bad idea. Plus, I talk about the mayor's plan to get rid of the subway fare.

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00:01:11.020 So, speaking of New York
00:01:12.100 and Mom Danny, I had started
00:01:13.840 the hour talking about Mom Danny and
00:01:15.380 his free buses
00:01:16.980 and what a joke this is.
00:01:19.580 It's, like I said, the cornerstone
00:01:21.980 of his platform he brings it up every time i saw um the forest hills uh rally that he was having
00:01:31.800 with aoc and bernie i tuned in for a couple of seconds during a break and uh there were signs
00:01:36.980 all over the place free fast busing rent freezes all these big signs with people cheering and
00:01:45.540 You know, where's the money coming from?
00:01:48.860 New York's broke.
00:01:50.320 There are so many vacant storefronts in New York.
00:01:53.600 People are leaving. 0.75
00:01:56.040 But Mamdani's got away.
00:01:58.040 $700 million he's going to raise to make buses free,
00:02:02.300 and somehow that's going to generate $1.4 billion in revenue.
00:02:07.140 I don't know.
00:02:07.880 I don't know what kind of abacus he's using to come up with that, 0.99
00:02:12.420 but that's what he says, so it must be true. 1.00
00:02:14.640 Just like his Islamic aunt, who was in Tanzania during 9-11, but couldn't get on a subway without being bullied. 0.99
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00:02:25.000 So here he is during the debate.
00:02:27.580 These mayoral debates were pretty entertaining.
00:02:30.300 I think Curtis did a good job calling out Cuomo and Memdani on things.
00:02:36.460 When he talked about the subway, I think Curtis did a great job mentioning the horror of crime, the filth.
00:02:47.280 And one of the biggest problems and reasons for that is that they are not enforcing the fares.
00:02:54.560 There are a lot of bad people that are not paying to get down onto those subways just to do people harm and steal and cause problems.
00:03:03.980 And then the moderator, who obviously could not stand Curtis, said, oh, well, what are you going to do?
00:03:13.040 What's your plan then?
00:03:14.940 And Curtis just looks and goes, I've been saying it.
00:03:18.000 Enforce the fares.
00:03:20.180 Make sure people are paying.
00:03:22.300 Arrest people that aren't paying.
00:03:24.480 And then have communities, have people go down there and sponsor some of these stations.
00:03:30.500 have people down there making sure you know it's cleaned up and there are there are people
00:03:37.260 so it's not that you're not walking around down there alone and you're calling the cops when you
00:03:42.980 see problems and they're just like oh yeah yeah meanwhile that's a great idea you enforce the
00:03:50.180 fares you're keeping 90 90 of the problems out of the subway and now what he wants to do with
00:03:58.360 the buses is get rid of the fares as i've said many times the only barrier between people using
00:04:06.280 the buses for actual transportation and the people that will now be using it as homeless shelters
00:04:12.240 and places to commit robbery and violence on people that are just trying to get from point a
00:04:17.980 to point b so this was during the debate and mem danny uh actually talks about the free buses
00:04:24.580 costing $700 million. Listen to this. First, I'll just say that one of the most celebrated
00:04:30.160 leaders of the New York City Transit was Andy Byford, who had such a terrible experience
00:04:34.740 working under Andrew Cuomo that he would rather work under Donald Trump right now.
00:04:39.980 Bomb! The proposal that we have put forward addresses the fact that today, in the wealthiest
00:04:45.840 city, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one in five New Yorkers cannot afford
00:04:50.720 the bus fare. It would cost $700 million a year to make the slowest buses in the country
00:04:57.020 fast and free. And by doing so, we would generate more than double an economic revenue for New
00:05:04.120 Yorkers across the city. It would be something that would reduce assaults on bus drivers,
00:05:08.920 it would increase ridership on those buses, and it would actually have environmental impacts
00:05:13.260 as fewer New Yorkers would drive their own car or take a taxi and would instead get on the bus.
00:05:17.760 And I know all of this because I delivered it as a state assembly member who won the first free buses in New York City's history. 0.55
00:05:24.680 He he says reduce violence against drivers by letting in mentally ill homeless people.
00:05:37.620 Somehow a bus full of nuts is going to reduce the violence against the drivers. 0.98
00:05:43.560 And I'll tell you where the violence against drivers comes from.
00:05:47.760 It's the people that don't want to pay to get on the buses.
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00:05:56.680 and they start beating up the driver because they don't want to pay the fare.
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00:08:03.220 Now, if you enforce the fares and you actually have cops that are allowed to do their job
00:08:11.080 and arrest the people and prosecute them,
00:08:16.040 then you'd whittle down on the violence against the drivers.
00:08:21.020 Thinking that if you get people that won't pay
00:08:25.540 and you ask them to pay and their answer is to beat up the driver,
00:08:30.280 taking away the fare is not going to stop the violence.
00:08:34.480 These people that are doing that, they love violence.
00:08:38.440 and now you're putting them on a bus with people that want to go to work,
00:08:44.320 want to come home from work, want to go somewhere on a weekend and can't afford it.
00:08:50.060 And then you're one in five people, New Yorkers, one in five New Yorkers can't afford the bus.
00:08:56.460 Are those one in five going to work?
00:09:01.040 Because I have to imagine that one in five are on that bus and they don't have jobs.
00:09:06.780 They they can't afford the bus. But yeah, it's part of living in the city. And there are resources for people that are impoverished and they need to go to the doctor or maybe they work for a couple of hours, whatever it is.
00:09:32.660 but they fall into the category of impoverished.
00:09:36.860 There are programs where you can get free MTA cards
00:09:41.640 for transportation around the city.
00:09:43.520 You don't make the entire bus free at the cost of $700 million
00:09:49.280 to people that are actually working and paying taxes
00:09:53.520 by raising their taxes
00:09:55.560 and then think it's going to generate $700 million more in revenue?
00:10:03.460 You're going to pay the $700 million and get $700 million more back
00:10:07.900 by making the buses free.
00:10:10.040 I need to see that equation.
00:10:12.640 I need to put that whole thing up on a blackboard.
00:10:18.760 Let me see that formula.
00:10:20.400 because i don't think that's possible but he thinks it is he thinks fast and how do you make
00:10:31.340 buses faster see it's fast free buses i think it'll be a lot slower when the bus has to stop
00:10:39.460 and the cops have to rope it off with the uh yellow get the f out of here tape because somebody
00:10:45.460 was stabbed on the bus i don't think that bus is gonna be fast when they're uh processing the
00:10:51.320 crime scene that they're gonna have to process on these free buses when they become rolling 1.00
00:10:57.000 homeless shelters you idiot you dunce you dummy 1.00