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I hope you're right.....
"...Yellowstone tends to have a major eruption every 600,000 to 700,000 years — numbers determined by ash deposits aged using geochemical and radioactive dating — and Unsworth said another one might not be far off.
“It’s been doing it about every 600,000 years and the last one was about 600,000 years ago. I can’t call that a prediction, but some would say it’s a cause to be concerned about the next one coming,” he said......"
Yellowstone supervolcano a local threat, too | World | News | Calgary Sun
This is the thread in which it was discussed. http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...nough-affect-world-far-greater-than-thou.html
Relevant quote:
"Dr Perrillat said there are no known supervolcanoes that are in danger of erupting in the foreseeable future, and it would take at least a decade or so for the magma pressure within a caldera to build up to a point where an eruption is likely. "
So you only need to continue paying your taxes for another ten years, at which point you're perfectly free to give the IRS the finger.