Yes, it does mean tax money. Stop corporate welfare and bump the corporate tax rate back to a reasonable value.

We paid $900 million in taxes to subsidize rural access to Starlink in one year lol

We also paid $42 billion in taxes for ISPs to roll out broadband access in a 2021 bill, and it hasn't connected a single person to the internet

Before that, we paid $400 billion to ISPs to do the same thing with the same results

Yes, but we've already done it, twice, and the benefits were quite significant.