I suspect the smaller the town, the harder it is to skim/cheat without killing infrastructure. So they tried the NYC/Chicago/SF plan and it is biting them in the @ss.
This country is really on its way out. A country can not have corrupt and criminal leadership like this and expect to survive.
Any country could attack this mess of a country right now and we would just fall. Heck, Biden has allowed all stripes of enemies to walk right in and set up shop.