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FILENAME:        4840_1423_1677
TOPIC#:          340
DATE:            920427
TRANSCRIBER:     nk
UTT_CODER:	 lsh
DIFFICULTY:      3
TOPICALITY:      1
NATURALNESS:     1
ECHO_FROM_B:     1
ECHO_FROM_A:     1
STATIC_ON_A:     3
STATIC_ON_B:     1
BACKGROUND_A:    3
BACKGROUND_B:    2
REMARKS:         There is static on A and children in her background.
It was difficult to hear speakers and B was hard to understand.

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o          A.1 utt1:  Okay, {F uh, }  /
sd          A.1 utt2: <laughter> {D well, } we just got our income tax return  /
sd          A.1 utt3: {C and } I'm perfectly happy.  /
qo          A.1 utt4:  What about you <laughter>? /  

^h          B.2 utt1:  {D Well, } let's see.  /
sd           B.2 utt2: I haven't got mine yet because  my parents are getting all that stuff [ at, + {F uh, } at ] home --   

b          A.3 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.4 utt1:  -- in the Bay area. /  

b          A.5 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.6 utt1:  {C So, } I'm not sure how much I'm getting  back  /
sd           B.6 utt2: {C but } I'm pretty sure I should get back a little bit since #  ((   ))  student, - /
%          B.6 utt3: {C so } <noise>. # -/  

b          A.7 utt1:  # Yeah. # /  

sd          B.8 utt1:  It's not too much. /  

b          A.9 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd          B.10 utt1:  Not too bad though <noise>. /  

sv           A.11 utt1:  {C But } as far as writing checks out and paying taxes,  I think it's pretty high.  /
%          A.11 utt2: {C But } I, I'm, {D you know, } - /
sv@            A.11 utt3: [ I, + I ]  guess it's where we have to be, [ where it, + ] <static> we have to keep raising them  [ for + ] to keep  some of the things [ that, + that ] we have and <sniffing>. 

aa          B.12 utt1:  <Noise> Yeah.  /
sv           B.12 utt2:  [ It, + it's ] one of those necessities  of life that we all have to,  (( {D you know } )) , pay taxes  [ but, + ] although it is  kind of a pain sometimes though. /  

+@           A.13 utt1:  <Children> It's just scary though about, {D you know. } - /
qh           A.13 utt2:  How high are the taxes going to be when my children are my age? / 

b          B.14 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sv           A.15 utt1:  {D You know, } [ [ that, + that's,  ] + that's ] scary too. /  

b          B.16 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd           A.17 utt1:  {C Because } it's not anything like the way it was when I was young and small and a child.  /
sv           A.17 utt2:  {C So, } {D you know, } [  that, +  that's ]  a scary part too, that you have to think about. /  

aa          B.18 utt1:  Yeah.  /
sv          B.18 utt2:  # [ {C And, } + {C and } ] </noise>, #   

x          A.19 utt1:  # <Throat_clearing>. #   

+           B.20 utt1:  {D like, } as time goes on, {D you know, } things get more expensive  /
sv           B.20 utt2: {C and } because we were  ((   ))  increasingly complex society that --   

b          A.21 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.22 utt1:  -- day by day [ things get more, + {F uh, } things get  more ] expensive as well as more complex. /  

b          A.23 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd           B.24 utt1:  {C And, } {D you know, } <noise> taxes are one of the  ways to help pay for a lot of the things that are needed in this society. /  

b          A.25 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sd           B.26 utt1:  {E I mean, } everything [ from, + {D you know, } from ]  medicare [ to, + {F uh, } to ] social security [ [ to, + {F uh, } to ] feeding the h-, + [ to, + {F uh, }  to, ] {D you know, } feeding the ] homeless, to maintaining prisons, to maintaining polices or  fire departments  and things like that.  /
%          B.26 utt2:  {C And } it's, <noise> - /
sv           B.26 utt3:  now there's more and more things that need attending to and that sort of thing.  /
sv          B.26 utt4: {C And, } {D you know } --   

b          A.27 utt1:  Uh-huh  /
x          A.27 utt2: </static>.   

+           B.28 utt1:  -- [ it's, + it's ] becoming a larger <squeak> responsibility  /
sd          B.28 utt2: {C but } someone <squeak> has to pay for it  /
sd          B.28 utt3: {C and } that's us. /  

aa          A.29 utt1:  Yeah  /
sv           A.29 utt2: {C and then } you find out about all these things about [ are your taxes, {D you know, } taxpayers, are, + ]  is your money going to where you want it to go  /
sd          A.29 utt3: {C and. }  There's going to a special this week.  /
sd           A.29 utt4: [ [  I, + I ] can't, + I can't ] if it's TWENTY TWENTY <sniffing>  or one of those things where, - /
sd          A.29 utt5:  {F uh, } I think it's one of the local news.  /
sd           A.29 utt6:  I think they're having a documentary.  Something about that.  /
sd           A.29 utt7:  About their trying to catch some people that <swallowing>, not spending your tax monies right and fraud and that kind of thing, {D you know } - /
sv          A.29 utt8: {C and } that's  kind of scary too <sniffing>. /  

b          B.30 utt1:  Uh-huh  /
x          B.30 utt2: <squeak>.   

sv           A.31 utt1:  {C And, } {F uh, } {C so } that would be interesting to see <noise>.  /
sd          A.31 utt2: I wanted to see that program. /  

b          B.32 utt1:  Yeah.  /
sv           B.32 utt2:  [ {C And, } + {C and, } ] [ even, + even ]  today it's {D like } the  ((   ))  amount of taxes that, {D you know, } we're paying for. - /
sv           B.32 utt3: {C But } you'd think  that we're  (( still in )) , that - /
sd@          B.32 utt4:  [ this, + this, ] {F uh, } deficit state that - / *[[ Bad parsing?  Seems to be part of previous utterance. ]]
sv          B.32 utt5: we're still not  able to pay off things just  because --   

aa          A.33 utt1:  <Child_talking> {F Oh, } I know <laughter> /  

+          B.34 utt1:  -- the budget's not big enough as it is. /  

b          A.35 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv          B.36 utt1:  {C And, }    

x          A.37 utt1:  <Children>.   

+           B.38 utt1:  makes you wonder when there's, {D you know, } countries out there that have, {D you know, } tax rates  of {D like } close to fifty percent or higher. /  

x          A.39 utt1:  <Children>.   

sd           B.40 utt1:  {D You know, } it's like fifty percent of everything  you make is already gone before you even get it. /  

b          A.41 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sv          B.42 utt1:  {C And } [ that, + that's ] kind of a scary thought.  /
sd          B.42 utt2:   I hope it doesn't come down to that. /  

b          A.43 utt1:  Yeah  /
x          A.43 utt2: <laughter>.   

sv           B.44 utt1:  {C But, } on the other hand, [ they also, + ]  while those countries that have high taxes, also have things like, {F uh, } <swallowing>  socialized medicine, things like that too, which are nice fringe benefits of it.  /
sd           B.44 utt2:   {C So } [ everyone has, + everyone has ] the access <squeak> to medical facilities  as well as the doctors. That sort of thing. /  

b          A.45 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sv          B.46 utt1:  {C And } it's good  /
sd           B.46 utt2: {C but } [ it's, + it's ] the price they pay <laughter>. /  

b          A.47 utt1:  Yeah. /  

sv           B.48 utt1:  <Noise> {E I mean } it can be argued one way or another  whether economically it's actually good for the country or good for any given country  to have that because those countries [ tend to be, {F uh, } {A as far as cash flow, } a lot, + {F uh, } [ have be, + ] tend to have ] a much slower cash flow --   

b          A.49 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+            B.50 utt1:  -- and don't  (( generate ))  [ a larger + [ a, + a ] large ]  amount of revenue because there's so little, {F uh, } currency flow through out the  economic system <squeak>. /  

b          A.51 utt1:  Huh.  /
sv           A.51 utt2:  {D Well } you sure do know [ a l-, + a lot ] <laughter>. /  

bd          B.52 utt1:  {D Well, } just keeping up with the times, # that's all. # /  

b          A.53 utt1:  # Yeah  /
b^r          A.53 utt2: <static>, yeah. # /  

sd           B.54 utt1:  [ As, + as ] it turns out, {D you know, } it's  [ one of those, + one of those ] (( interests )) , {D you know, } I kind of like to keep up on.  /
sd           B.54 utt2:   {C Because, }  {D well } it's  nice to know that when [ I'm actually, + ] {D you know, }  I do start working that, I like to know where my tax dollars are going too. /  

b          A.55 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd          B.56 utt1:   ((   ))  work hard to get, {D you know. } - /
sd^r          B.56 utt2:  I like to know where it's going to. /  

aa          A.57 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa^r          A.57 utt2: yeah.  /
aa          A.57 utt3:  That's true. /  

b          B.58 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

qo           A.59 utt1:  What do you think about these items that are going to be, {F uh, } taxed even more.  Like, {F uh, } tobacco and that kind of thing <sniffing>. /  

sv           B.60 utt1:  I think [ in a, + in a ] way it's good, in a way it's not.  /
sv           B.60 utt2:  {F Uh, } {C but } I think in general <squeak>  it's probably good.  /
sd           B.60 utt3:  {E I mean, } a lot of  things like tobacco and alcohol and things like that [ [ have been, + have been, ] +  in the past, {F uh, } have been ] not taxed because there's been such a large lobby  [ against them, # + against # --   

b          A.61 utt1:  # Uh-huh. # /  

+           B.62 utt1:  -- the ] taxes for them.   Sponsored by the alcohol and tobacco companies. -/

b           @@A.63 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

sd           B.64 utt1:  {C And } [ it's + ] things like tobacco  [ are, + ] {F uh, } [ they're, + they're ] a proven health hazard to # smokers # --   

b          A.65 utt1:  # Yeah. # /  

+          B.66 utt1:  -- as well as nonsmokers <sniffing>. /  

b          A.67 utt1:  Right. /  

%          B.68 utt1:  {C And } it's, - /
sd*          B.68 utt2: as far as the safety thing, [ in,  {D like } + in ] San Luis Obispo, for example, there's an ordnance which states that, {F uh, }  there's no smoking in any public areas.  / *[[typo ordinance]]
sd           B.68 utt3: {C And so } if you walk into any  restaurant or any hotel there's no smoking allowed anywhere. /  

b          A.69 utt1:  {F Oh, } really </children> </static>. / 
