The Centro for Economic Research in the Antilles (Cenantillas), the economic think-tank at the PUCMM university, is warning that if government spending is not sharply curtailed a new tax reform will be needed within two years. Economist Pedro Silverio, who heads the organization, told reporter Jairon Severon from the Listin Diario that a government?s debt should not exceed the levels of income produced by taxes, and he pointed out that the PRD government?s salaries currently consume 30% of official tax revenues, or RD$32 billion. Silverio is lobbying for a law that will place spending caps on the government, viewing them as necessary limitations to avoid a new taxation overhaul in the short term. While Silverio considers the current proposed measures to be good, as part of the commitment between government and the society at large, he feels controls are needed to limit the government-assumed debts, which are significantly sizeable today. Then, he says, the government must figure out how to reduce the taxes and establish new tax levels. Silverio says that at the present time, stability is more important that economic growth.