Cuomo's Court Budget Heads For 27 % Increase Added To Medicaid Budget's 9.4% Increase

The talk was cheap, but the bill steep.

    So far, Cuomo's budget is increasing Medicaid expenditures by 9.4%.    Now, the focus moves to the Court Budget, where Chief Judge Lippman wanted a $50 million dollar increase over this year's $2.7 billion dollar budget.    But Lippman relented and has proposed a $100 million dollar decrease.

    That sounded good, but it is only a 3.7% decrease and Cuomo wanted 10% decrease.
But wait, 1. Lippman expects a Commission to give raises to the 1,300 Judges, with raises for Supreme Court Judges rising from $136,700 to more than $179,000 or 31% increase or $48 million dollars in judicial salaries to added to Lippman's budget.
.   2. The Judges are suing for $780 million in back pay to be added to Lippman's budget.

So the revised real budget arithmetic is:   $2.7 billion this year; minus -$100 million proposed by Lippman; plus +$48 million in judicial salary increases; plus +$780 billion in back pay; or court budget increases by +$728 million dollars or  a 27% increase.

   Cuomo's To-do or not do List includes criminal charges against Chief Judge Lippman

    Question? When will Cuomo chuck his no tax increase pledge (not with just some hidden taxes in his Medicaid  reform)  and add some real tax increases as Governor Brown is asking the voters to do in California for a $25.4  billion dollar gap?

It was do or not do and Andrew Cuomo tried ~ Yoda (revised NY version)