January 19, 2026 – What happens to your state when Democrats are given total power

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A photo of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and New Jersey native Abigail Spanberger wearing a large plastic hood. (Credit: public domain)

Democrats now control the legislature and [“moderate”] Governor’s office in Virginia.

Here are just a few of the bills they’ve introduced

– New 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats, Amazon, etc deliveries.
– New sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses.
– Create two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over $600K.
– A new 10% tax bracket for anyone making over $1M.
– 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes.
– Raise the hotel tax.
– New personal property tax on landscaping equipment.
– Ban gas powered leaf blowers.
– Guarantee illegal aliens free education.
– Make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic.
– Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days
– Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the internet.
– Expand ranked-choice voting.
– Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day.
– Redact the addresses of political candidates from FOIAs.
– Add Virginia to the National Popular Vote Compact for presidential electors.
– Make it illegal to hand count ballots.
– $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors .
– “Assault weapons” and large capacity magazine ban.
– 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition.
– Prohibit outdoor shooting of a firearm on land less than 5 acres.
– Lower the criminal penalties for robbery.
– Ban the arrest of illegal aliens in courthouses.
– Remove mandatory minimum sentences.
– Allow localities to install speed cameras.
– Replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples Day.”

Oh hell yeah, this is the political version of getting sold a “certified pre-owned” car and then the engine falls out in the parking lot, “we just want to make your life more affordable” turns into a full-blown tax buffet, soft-on-crime carnival, election-rules Jenga tower, and regulatory micromanagement Olympics within about five minutes of taking power, and anyone pretending this isn’t bait-and-switch politics is either lying or clinically allergic to spreadsheets, new delivery taxes, higher brackets, investment taxes, hotel taxes, equipment taxes, gun taxes, while also loosening criminal penalties and playing musical chairs with election rules like it’s a Vegas magic act, that’s not affordability, that’s fiscal waterboarding wrapped in progressive branding, and the election stuff alone should make any serious adult sit up straight, online voting, delayed ballots, ranked-choice expansion, banning hand counts, extending curing windows, joining the popular vote compact, that’s a whole buffet of “trust us bro” mechanisms that magically always favor the same people who wrote the rules, then you stack on gun restrictions, energy nanny rules, speech buffer zones, and sanctuary nonsense and you’ve basically copy-pasted the same urban governance experiment that keeps blowing up everywhere else, the real insult isn’t even the policies, it’s the dishonesty, don’t campaign as moderate pragmatists then govern like activist interns hopped up on ideology and donor pressure, voters aren’t stupid, they’re tired of being treated like goldfish with three-second memory, and if this is day-one energy in Virginia, buckle up, because the receipts are already writing themselves and the political hangover is gonna hit hard.