Advocates of a territorial system for international tax — where the USA would not tax any foreign income of U.S. corporations — say we should adopt it because the other major industrialized countries have it.
When it comes to a Value Added Tax, the fact that every other major industrialized country has one DOES NOT MATTER to those folks.
They are as consistent in their antipathy to taxation as I am in my sympathy for it.
The Center for New Revenue 