The chances of online marketing behemoth Amazon choosing Salt Lake City, or any other location in Utah, for its much coveted second headquarters - (hashtag)HQ2 - are slim.
And, no matter what they might say, the people who run the state’s political establishment are just fine with that. For reasons they might not admit.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, we are too close to the company’s original headquarters in Seattle to further its goal of world domination. The tax breaks and rebates and other enticements we could offer would not come anywhere near the multi-billion dollar sweeteners dangled before the company elsewhere.