Georgia for FairTax | Free eBook Sep. 2014 | Page 17

FairTax Overview The U.S. International System is Anachronistic. The U.S. international tax system is today an embarrassing anachronism. When it was shiny and new in 1918 – the year President Woodrow Wilson donned his top hat to become the first president to leave North America -- we led the way in enacting a system where income taxes duly paid to a foreign country could be credited against U.S. income taxes. Ten years after that, in 1928, the League of Nations introduced draft model income tax treaties,