CEA’s David Holt looks at how vital infrastructure and energy projects have been unnecessarily halted due to extreme activist groups resulting in job losses and a lack of economic growth – much like that of the failed Amazon deal in New York.
Like the yanked-out Amazon deal — which eliminated 25,000 would-be jobs, more than $10 billion in incremental tax revenue and billions more in regional economic activity — the energy sector from coast to coast has seen various production and infrastructure proposals hindered, delayed or cancelled by one-sided and ill-informed extremists who put narrow, extremist politics before country and their cash-strapped, hard-working constituents.
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