In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.

Q: Statement: uh certainly not presidential but but quite possibly VP and here they are they they know very well they can't do it because if they do it's going to split the party and if they do it they're going to alienate a whole bunch of others so i mean they were stuck one way or the other yeah it was an interesting thing i was laughing through the whole thing uh Choices: 1. Most people agreed with me that it was hilarious.  2. They're in a bit of a catch-22.  3. I thought it was extremely boring and dull. 

A: 1
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Q: Statement: It's losing its command-and-control structure. Choices: 1. The command and control structure is good to go. 2. This is because there is no funding to keep it up to date. 3. The command and control structure is deteriorating. 

A: 2
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Q: Statement: yeah i mean we're we're taxed on taxes and um uh most all government entities are just trying to give us a state income tax for those who don't have it that is i mean we don't have one yet but eventually they may try to push it through Choices: 1. We are lucky to be among those that don't have any taxes. 2. There is nothing was can about the double taxes. 3. Government entities are trying to push an income tax on us.

A:
2
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