tax hike vs increase

tax hike and increase both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tax hike	Yes	No	No	No
increase	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, increase is a hypernym of tax hike; that is, increase is a word with a broader meaning than tax hike:

Other hypernyms of tax hike include increment.

tax hike (noun)	increase (noun)
the amount by which taxes are increased	the act of increasing something
	the amount by which something increases
	a change resulting in an increase
	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	a quantity that is added

tax hike (verb)	increase (verb)
	become bigger or greater in amount
	make bigger or more