Premise: um i do read a lot read quite a lot

Hypothesis: I read a lot.
Answer: yes

Premise: i'm surprised you didn't just pack up and go home i tell

Hypothesis: It's surprising you didn't just pack up and go home.
Answer: yes

Premise: What Allen utterly failed to address is the fact that regardless of their effects on aggregate consumption and investment, tax hikes are bad--and tax cuts, good--for individual taxpayers.

Hypothesis: Tax hikes are bad for middle class people.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: Among spectator sports, pride of place goes to horse-racing.

Hypothesis: No one cares about horse-racing, it's the most unpopular sport.
Answer: no