Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “If you're living off of taxpayer money, you shouldn't get to vote”
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From the October 21, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): So the better solution is to fix our current system. And you can do that in ways that I've described many times. It can be done. Now, do I think it will be done? No. I have no faith in that, but it can be. Unlike, you know, transitioning from our current system to having a monarchy, having a king in a palace, which cannot happen, fixing the voting system can, in theory, happen.
And, again, I've talked many ways about how to do it — drastically narrow the qualifications to vote. That's it. I'm not saying that that would create a utopia. I'm not saying that would solve all of our problems. It would solve a lot of our problems. I mean, if there's one thing we could do all by itself that would be nearly guaranteed to make America great again, it would be that.
Because right now, the idea is that every human existing within our borders is automatically qualified to vote as long as they're over the age of 18. And that's going come down too anyway. So — and that's total madness. It was never supposed to be that way. None of our founders — none of the founders of our democratic system going all the way back to our, you know, to our founders, going back further to the ancient Greeks. I mean, none of them recommended the kind of system we have now. In fact, they all warned against it. They all said, well, obviously, look, people should have a say, but, obviously, you can't just you can't just have an unruly mob of any old moron with no stake in anything deciding what happens in your country. Like, obviously, you can't give them an equal say. And we got all those warnings over the millennia, and we said, yeah, but you know what? I think we'll do exactly that. Fortunately, it's an easy fix. Not a likely fix, but it is easy. It could happen.
We could transform our country overnight with a few tweaks. Yeah. You've just got to disenfranchise a few groups. And I've gone over the list before. If I mean — disenfranchise, take the vote away from anybody on welfare, number one. If you're living off of taxpayer money, you shouldn't get to vote. Now the good news is if you get back on your own two feet and you're living on your own and not living off of the dole, you could then earn the right to vote at that point. But while you're living on the dole, you shouldn't — no. The vote should go to people who are able to support themselves and contribute to society. And you might have reasons why you're not able to do that, but, even so, you know, we can be sympathetic to that, but that means that you don't — no, you don't get to be a captain of the ship here. You don't get to steer the the ship. You don't get to vote to give yourself more of my money. You're not putting any money into the system and you get to vote to decide what happens with it? No. Like, clearly, that — we should not allow that.