Morse needed $30k in funding from Congress to construct the telegraph line, and one congressman apparently wanted half the sum for "experiments in mesmerism". 1890s was a wild time pic.twitter.com/QjKwpz9ZnD

— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) May 3, 2022

The lib “All government subsidies are bad” crowd really needs to rethink that facile credo.