Spending tax dollars to improve your domestic industry... unfortunately sometimes has the opposite effect. It depends on how incentives are aligned. For instance, if USA military contractors turn around and spend billions on overseas steel, subcomponent import and labor, do the dollars really spin off into the USA economy?

Robust and competitive domestic commercial shipbuilding industry, now there's a good place to start.

The atricle reads like it's written by someone long on USA shipbuilding companies.