Workman's Comp in CT is high. Regardless of who is at fault for injury, all of the player's medical and rehab bills are paid by the team in addition to lost wages and then some. Knowing how the Fed is, those are going to pile up early and often. Then there are the premiums, which alone probably add up to around $100,000 seasonally.
Connecticut has many high income earners, but it's all concentrated in the Gold Coast for the NYC commuters and a few Hartford suburbs. Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport each have around a quarter of their populations below the poverty line and the state is overwhelmingly lower middle class. I don't know why Workman's Comp is so high, Corrupticat historically doesn't make smart decisions. Adding state income tax, building the Rent, erecting Mt. Trashmore, continuously electing corrupt politicians from both parties, and the rest reads like fiction.
Adding a Fed team to Danbury will create almost no jobs and add marginal spinoff business. A lot of people in Fed organizations have second jobs. Both previous Danbury teams relied on unpaid volunteer game day staff, I'm pretty sure most Fed teams do as well. The downtown restaurants around the arena will get a noticeable jump on game nights. But, the team won't benefit the city that much, outside of them being able to say they have pro hockey.
