It is because of a provincialism and incentives resulting in the culture of "bringing home the bacon" selfishly seeking local benefits without regards to their

It is because of a provincialism and incentives resulting in the culture of "bringing home the bacon" selfishly seeking local benefits without regards to their impact on others. It lets politicians claim benefits where just private corporations doing stuff that helps they can't even if being hands off lead to it. The bringing home the bacon culture is a larger toxic phenomenon given the "bandit towns" doing things like lowering highway speed traps and the town being vastly composed of traffic cops.