The Anthony Cumia Show - September 19, 2025


You Will Be Taxed to Death and Forced to Like It ｜ 09-14-25


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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

148.12695

Word count

1,467

Sentence count

64

Harmful content

Toxicity

4

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Hate speech

5

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Summary

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On this episode of the WBC Minicast, host Alex Blumberg is joined by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the latest in the Mayor's campaign and why he's running for re-election.

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00:01:00.100 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
00:01:02.420 You mean taxi?
00:01:04.020 Okay, then you want to look around?
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00:01:11.060 Mayor Memdani,
00:01:12.220 and I'm calling him that now because
00:01:13.680 he's going to be your mayor because you're all 1.00
00:01:15.780 morons. 1.00
00:01:18.360 Mayor Memdani seems to 1.00
00:01:19.840 think we've got to get rid of the
00:01:21.320 gang database.
00:01:23.840 because it throws such a wide net over who's who's in it the criteria to get
00:01:31.360 into the gang database is so vague that if you go out you're in your apartment it's 12 30 a.m
00:01:41.360 you're going to the uh the deli across the street to get a iced tea or something
00:01:47.280 and uh i don't know someone sees you a cop sees you you're on the gang database you're a gang 0.66
00:01:57.740 member you're a blood or a crip or a latin king or something ms 13 because you went out late 0.81
00:02:04.620 oh my god what'd you do on instagram your cat oh you posted a picture of your you're in the gang 0.88
00:02:12.800 database does anyone believe that simply going out late at night puts you in the gang database
00:02:23.620 does anyone believe that lying sack saying that that that's actually what happens
00:02:33.260 well that isn't all that isn't all kids here is um mayor memdani and the great
00:02:48.360 iconic reverend al sharpton on a little network called msnbc uh no one is watching it but
00:02:58.880 i watch it so you don't have to and uh they're talking about the uh the wealthy people in new
00:03:07.380 york city obviously mayor mem danny putting these these uh programs in place really disenfranchises
00:03:15.240 the wealthy people who he says he's just gonna tax the living crap out of he's gonna tax them
00:03:22.400 to pay for his socialist, communist programs.
00:03:28.120 And Reverend Al, in a last gasp of reason,
00:03:35.400 asks him, hey, won't they just leave?
00:03:40.340 What would keep wealthy New Yorkers in New York City
00:03:45.280 if you're just going to tax them to poverty?
00:03:48.840 and and the programs you're instating are programs they want no part of so why wouldn't they just
00:03:57.460 leave i know i was amazed reverend now brought this up uh myself but uh boy mam danny has a
00:04:04.800 great answer what a sly cunning politician he is with this answer listen to this now you've been
00:04:12.600 running on the platform of affordability uh fixes for new york like a rent freeze you mentioned
00:04:18.340 free buses, city-owned groceries that made you popular with some working New Yorkers,
00:04:24.660 but not so popular with real estate developers and the financial class. You were the only
00:04:30.700 mayoral candidate to march alongside Martin Luther King III and I on our march on Wall Street about
00:04:36.620 DEI on last week as we call for economic justice for all New Yorkers and all Americans. But right
00:04:43.140 Right now, the top 1% earners in the city pay 40% of the city's income taxes, according
00:04:50.600 to the Empire Center for Public Policy.
00:04:53.100 41%.
00:04:54.100 How do you bring these wealthy residents to the table as mayor, stop them from saying
00:04:59.300 they're leaving, going to Florida?
00:05:01.260 Because we need that tax revenue to pay for some of the things you're talking about.
00:05:05.640 How do you pay for it if they're gone?
00:05:07.480 Well, the first thing I have to say is I was proud to be the only candidate for mayor at
00:05:11.100 that march.
00:05:12.100 And I was proud because some of the chants at that march, they were asking, is the dream alive?
00:05:17.620 Is Dr. King's dream still alive?
00:05:20.380 And he asked the question decades ago, what good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
00:05:26.420 That's a question that New Yorkers are still wrestling with today in 2025.
00:05:30.700 And so what I have put forward is a vision to make the most expensive city in the United States of America affordable.
00:05:36.780 At a time when we have the wealthiest city, it is also one where one in four are living in poverty.
00:05:42.100 And to your point, we have a number of New Yorkers who are doing quite well.
00:05:47.460 The top 1% of New York City earns a million dollars or more a year.
00:05:51.140 And my vision is not one where they leave.
00:05:53.600 It is one where they stay.
00:05:55.020 How do you get them to stay?
00:05:56.360 How?
00:05:56.600 In part by showing them that asking them to pay more in taxes would increase even their quality of life.
00:06:02.180 Because when you ask New Yorkers, what is it that is making them feel uneasy in this city?
00:06:06.920 You often hear from them about the cleanliness of our city, the safety of our city, the affordability of our city.
00:06:12.780 We are not asking to raise these taxes for the sake of it.
00:06:15.440 We're asking so that we can actually make the slowest buses in the country fast and free,
00:06:19.680 so that we can actually create a Department of Community Safety that would deploy dedicated teams of mental health outreach workers
00:06:26.880 to the top 100 stations of the highest levels of mental health crises and homelessness.
00:06:31.180 That relationship proving that that tax dollar leads to that investment,
00:06:35.500 because we know that it's not just a fiscal policy that takes somebody from New York City
00:06:39.780 to somewhere else because a lot of New Yorkers if they leave they go to California another high
00:06:44.100 tax state they go to New Jersey another high tax state many people say they might go to Florida
00:06:48.320 but I have seen and heard from many New Yorkers concern about this new elimination of vaccine
00:06:54.120 mandates in Florida that makes them question where they would ever want to live there sure sure
00:06:59.220 there was so much going on there
00:07:03.380 but I really
00:07:04.840 what I want you to take away from that is
00:07:07.240 Reverend Al asks
00:07:09.500 Mayor Memdani
00:07:10.700 what are you going to do
00:07:13.580 to keep the wealthiest
00:07:15.420 of New Yorkers, the ones that pay
00:07:17.040 41%
00:07:18.380 of the taxes to New York
00:07:21.580 City, what will you do to
00:07:23.400 keep them, to bring them to the
00:07:25.420 table? You're going out
00:07:27.520 there and you're uh campaigning to low-income people and people that uh need government
00:07:35.500 assistance but what about the people that pay the bills how are you going to keep them
00:07:41.300 his answer was tax them more they will love it if i tax them more he said that
00:07:52.940 they want to be taxed more to make the city better instead of using their already unbelievably high taxes to somehow get New York City in some semblance of organization and not spending more than you're taking in.
00:08:14.360 And he just says, I'm going to tax them more, Reverend Al.
00:08:19.800 And that, that, my friend, is my cunning way to bring the wealthy to the table
00:08:25.920 and keep them in New York City, to take away more of their wealth
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