The Anthony Cumia Show - February 06, 2026


The Spanberger Shakedown ｜ 02-01-26


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10 minutes

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Word count

1,355

Sentence count

59

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Misogyny

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Toxicity

4

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Hate speech

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Anthony Cumia is back in South Carolina, and he's got a special guest on the show this week to talk about what's going on in his home state of Virginia and how they're trying to take your money out of your pocket.

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00:01:05.300 This is the 77 WABC
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00:01:10.660 The Anthony Cumia
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00:01:12.640 Virginia, man.
00:01:15.460 Oh, I feel
00:01:17.680 bad for you.
00:01:19.840 I ran down here to
00:01:21.640 South Carolina to apparently just
00:01:23.560 feel bad about a lot of other states in the union uh we're not perfect down here that's for sure
00:01:30.980 but i i coming from new york i can't imagine living in a state that isn't pretty solid red
00:01:41.220 and south kakalacki is pert red down here so uh i look at uh states like my former home new york
00:01:51.980 and Virginia, man, what happened? 0.73
00:01:56.280 They elected this Abigail Spanberger as the governor,
00:02:01.560 and then their Senate and Congress,
00:02:06.920 it seems every politician in their state are Democrats,
00:02:11.720 and they are wasting no time to start legislating
00:02:16.560 these terrible, destructive laws, policies, regulations,
00:02:24.940 everything they want to do is so counterproductive to the American way.
00:02:29.760 Work hard, have government out of your pocket, leave us alone,
00:02:36.360 and we will make the state work.
00:02:40.740 She took over on January 17th as governor. 0.79
00:02:45.040 they have all the power they need to start really screwing things up and uh if you're in virginia 0.78
00:02:53.600 here's what you have to look forward to additional local sales tax in all virginia counties
00:03:00.600 they're going to raise those taxes what was virginia democrats are looking at proposing a
00:03:06.200 4.3% tax on
00:03:08.040 rideshare tips
00:03:09.640 and an additional 1.9% tax
00:03:12.140 on top of that
00:03:14.020 for trips to northern
00:03:15.840 Virginia.
00:03:17.960 So ridesharing, things like that,
00:03:20.020 Uber, they're taxing the crap out of that.
00:03:22.720 New personal property
00:03:23.940 tax on electric leaf blowers
00:03:26.240 and electric landscaping
00:03:28.360 equipment. You want to buy yourself
00:03:30.060 a leaf blower? There you go.
00:03:32.400 Cha-ching. You're at Home Depot.
00:03:34.400 you look at your receipt there'll be a tax on their large employer tax they will penalize
00:03:43.880 companies that are able that have been blessed with leadership and product and ingenuity and
00:03:52.060 the ability to hire a lot of people and they will penalize them with higher taxes large employer
00:04:01.840 tax wow you're you you you're employing a lot of people here let me take more of your money
00:04:07.460 uh new income tax brackets of course where by the way everyone who is working will be labeled
00:04:16.160 wealthy and rich and have to do their fair share uh gun and ammunition tax you like yours uh second
00:04:26.120 amendment you like uh buying guns having the best tool available to protect yourself and your loved
00:04:32.160 ones you want ammunition so it's not just a paperweight you're gonna pay liberal democrats
00:04:39.540 for that uh privilege and then by the way all the money they're taking for all the things i'm
00:04:46.900 talking about will be used for ridiculous wasteful liberal projects 0.99
00:04:54.820 your you buy a few rounds of ammunition some of that money will go to feed housing clothe 0.53
00:05:03.620 illegals yeah i'm not lying delivery tax which would hit amazon uber eats fedex ups and orders
00:05:14.720 in northern virginia investment income tax i mean these are things that happen all the time
00:05:20.560 they jack these things up you're just trying to make a few bucks for your retirement
00:05:25.580 you want to invest your money you want to make money with your money well hell we're gonna dip
00:05:33.160 into that too no getting their grubby hands out of your pockets especially in virginia event tax
00:05:41.900 you want to go to a concert you want to go to a tractor pull they got their hand out 0.51
00:05:47.960 gotta gotta feed and clothe those illegals storage facility you got a house you're moving you need 0.96
00:05:55.900 to store some stuff oh they want some of that how about gym membership tax you want to get healthy 1.00
00:06:03.720 you want to feel better you want to spend less time and money in a doctor's office well that's
00:06:11.380 going to cost you. Oh, Virginia is putting their hand out for that. I don't even know what this
00:06:17.600 is. A dog walking tax. A dog grooming tax. Counseling tax. What are these? Digital personal
00:06:34.280 property tax so if you own something digitally what like crypto currency are they trying to say
00:06:44.120 digital personal property tax i don't know i would assume they want to tax your digital
00:06:52.600 personal property where i can't see that not being a cryptocurrency like bitcoin
00:06:57.840 new car taxes and highway use fees
00:07:02.760 don't you already pay taxes for the highways
00:07:07.420 but uh you know you you you have to be absolutely sure
00:07:15.160 that no matter what they will be stealing your money
00:07:18.780 and by the way i don't think i have to remind anybody at this point
00:07:23.540 that every penny that you're giving them for these taxes
00:07:29.860 has already been taxed federally and state-wise.
00:07:37.520 They've already taken their cut.
00:07:40.500 And now you have whatever's left,
00:07:43.160 and the second you pull it out to buy anything else,
00:07:47.900 they have their grubby mitt out there looking to get it.
00:07:53.440 Increase in the hotel tax in Arlington.
00:07:57.340 Statewide speed cameras.
00:07:59.460 Not a tax, but more fines for drivers.
00:08:01.860 It's a tax.
00:08:03.600 It's a tax.
00:08:04.480 What do you think?
00:08:05.220 You think they're doing that to keep their people safe?
00:08:10.340 If it was to keep their people safe, they wouldn't tax your gym memberships.
00:08:18.200 That's making you healthy.
00:08:19.900 a more productive virginian if they cared about you speeding because speed causes more accidents
00:08:30.840 and hurts more people then why would they tax your gym membership for also doing something to
00:08:37.940 keep you in good health because it's not it's a tax they know people will drive fast they just
00:08:46.320 want to make money off of it vehicle repair tax now the the the garage is going to charge you
00:08:56.600 anyway they're going to charge you a tax because they have to pay their income tax so they pass it
00:09:03.840 to you that's been the way of doing business for years but now there'll be more money that you have 0.96
00:09:10.420 to pay to them to get your vehicle fixed home repair tax same thing everything but a damn dry 0.91
00:09:20.780 cleaning tax oh wait there it is the dry cleaning tax you can't dry clean your clothes without the 0.98
00:09:29.760 state of virginia getting their mitts in on it it is disgusting disgusting and if you don't take
00:09:42.100 this as your ability to to view a little microcosm of the future what the future will look like
00:09:53.480 under a democrat president a democrat house and a democrat congress if you don't look at this and
00:10:02.140 know know that that is what they will do at a federal level you're out of your mind and that's
00:10:10.660 just the taxes all the other stuff will be even more insane shoving it down our throats but
00:10:17.600 financially, this is what they want to do. This is their plan. Good luck, Virginia.
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