As the deficit balloons, if outside investors start to feelconcernabout the sustainability of U.S. debt, that factor could drive interest rates higher on Treasuries which would be an extremely scary scenario.
The third issue why it may matter, is simply out of people's feeling of happiness and wellbeing, and if we find people are perennially worried about certain issues that they feel unable to talk to people about, then their unhappiness and concern must be, at the end of the day, something of importance in social policy and to the government.
But there may be a new level of concernabout just how warm and fuzzy tax advisers and clients feel even if we have a raft of PLRs similar to our facts.