ESRI calls for tax hikes to prevent overheating

One of the country’s leading economic think-tanks has called for increased taxes and less spending to form the basis of next year’s budget.

ESRI calls for tax hikes to prevent overheating

One of the country’s leading economic think-tanks has called for increased taxes and less spending to form the basis of next year’s budget.

The Economic and Social Research Institute said a contractionary budget — where more money is taken out of the economy than is put in — is needed in October to address what it calls “early signs” of overheating in the domestic economy.

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