Sarasota Tax Reform Forum Panelists Hoping for Change

They disagreed on how American tax reform should occur, but all hoped for change. Panelists at a forum Friday veered from the flat tax to a consumption tax to the days before income tax. There was plenty of gloom and doom, with some predicting the United States would financially implode. But near the end, the host, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, injected a note of optimism when asked about the main obstacle to reform. “I think there’s a window of opportunity” to make a deal on the subject, he said during the forum in the Sainer Pavilion at New College of Florida.