法律程序可以产生滑稽,似梦的风格要求。本周,美国国税局开始审计全国教育协会的纳税申报表。根据文档收集的具有里程碑意义的法律基础,NEA声称从1993年到1999年,它在政治活动上不会费,定义为任何旨在“影响选择、提名、选举或任命任何人联邦、州、或当地公共办公室。”The IRS is prohibited from talking about individual audits but we can imagine that this might have caused a few snickers around their water cooler.