Conservative activist Robby Starbuck says 'lifelong welfare users' should be banned from VOTING

By ALEX HAMMER, US MEDIA CORRESPONDENT Published: 15:23, 17 August 2026 | Updated: 15:23, 17 August 2026 Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has said that allowing 'lifelong welfare users to vote is garbage' and even floated a prospective ban on repeat recipients. Starbuck, 37, made the remarks in a series of social media posts Sunday. He compared the current situation to parents 'running a home' while giving kids 'equal say in the financial decisions.' 'The inevitable result is always more debt, more taxes, more division, more resentment, more anger, more spending, more fraud and a less functional country,' Starbuck said.      'Call me a radical but if we want America to be exceptional, then taxpayers who fund all the welfare should have more of a say in our elections than lifelong welfare users.' He floated other solutions, like giving 'only people NOT on welfare' voting rights or 'letting taxpayer votes counts twice.'    'Or should we continue the system we have now?' Starbuck went on to evoke the Founding Fathers and the Bible in another post, where he pointed out how early leaders in the US only 'required you to be a landowner or a taxpayer to vote.' Robby Starbuck floated a prospective ban on 'lifelong welfare users' voting over the weekend. The online influencer is seen on CNBC's Money Movers back in 2024 Starbuck, 37, made the remarks in a series of social media posts that criticized what he framed as a culture of dependency 'Also Jesus didn’t treat everyone the same in the Bible,' he added. 'He treated everyone according to their individual situations. Sinners got told to sin no more. Rich [people] got asked by Jesus to do charity directly (not via government).' Starbuck reminded how 'religious leaders who misled people' were called 'vipers' and disclaimed that the central figure of Christianity 'wasn’t a hippie, contrary to modern misinterpretations.' 'This isn’t poor vs. rich. It’s contributor vs. taker,' Starbuck warned.  'Allowing lifelong welfare users to vote is garbage because they’ll ALWAYS vote to increase welfare even when we can’t afford it.' Starbuck - a former music video director who transitioned to political commentary during Donald Trump's first successful presidential campaign, in 2015 - ended the message there. He's known for online campaigns geared toward brands popular with politically conservative customers. For months, Starbuck penned posts calling attention to firms' policies surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion. He invoked both the Founding Fathers and the Bible to bash the idea of taxpayers having the same sway as repeat recipients Starbuck is a former music video director who transitioned to political commentary in 2015, known for his online grassoots campaigns He claimed credit for DEI-related reversals from companies Tractor Supply, Harley-Davidson, Brown-Forman, and Lowe’s back in 2024.  Recent posts from the influencer have homed in on a purported need for increased national voter ID laws, with midterms just months away. He has more than 1million followers on social media.