INSIDE WASHINGTON : Conflicting laws and IRS rules feed confusion over tea party’s tax status - The Washington Post

INSIDE WASHINGTON : Conflicting laws and IRS rules feed confusion over tea party’s tax status - The Washington Post: WASHINGTON — A century of laws and rules curbing political activity by tax-exempt organizations has left us with this: One statute says to qualify, groups must engage “exclusively” in social welfare projects while a regulation eases the threshold to “primarily.”

Confused? So are President Barack Obama, the Internal Revenue Service and members of the very Congress that has been enacting contradictory laws on the subject for decades.