Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The government should add taxes to unhealthy foods to improve people’s health. Use details and examples to support your opinion.
Is it really viable to increase taxes on fast foods to improve people's health? In my opinion, this will be counter-productive for the government. The statement not only overlooks the other factors that may affect people's health, but also it may have repercussions on the economy, and global relations. I will elaborate on these points in the following essay.
To begin with, most developing countries do not have their own fast-food chain companies. For instance, in a country like India where almost all popular fast food chains such as Mcdonald's, KFC, Subway, Taco Bell, etc. are foreign brands, it is not at all justifiable to increase taxes on fast foods. This may result in loss or decreased profits to the extent that it may not seem viable to do business in that country. If that happens, and even some of these companies shut their business, the government will lose the monetary gains it was getting as taxes. Therefore, there is a possibility of monetary loss for the government itself. In addition to that, it may give a wrong impression of fewer business opportunities in the food sector for the respective nation.
Secondly, how do we know that increasing taxes on fast foods will stop people from buying and eating the same? The desired result is based on the assumption that people will stop purchasing and eating fast foods once the taxes are increased. Some of these foods are available in the market at really low prices, and increasing tax by some percentage will not prevent people from eating it for sure. Also, one must consider the other factors affecting people's health. Lack of exercise, a lazy lifestyle, and even overuse of oil, butter, etc. in homemade food may be the reason for bad health. Keeping this in mind, it is entirely possible that if people stop eating fast food so frequently, still it may not have any significant impact on their health.
Some may argue that increasing taxes on fast foods would surely decrease the frequency with which people eat outside. However, one cannot forget the low prices of many unhealthy food items available in the market. Moreover, fast foods that are not affordable to the lower class of the country, but not a big deal for the middle and upper class are not going to make any difference even with increased taxes.
To sum up, increasing taxes on fast foods is not at all a good idea if improved public health is the desired goal. Considering the possible monetary losses that the government may have to face, the inherent assumption of the argument that people will stop eating junk food if the said policy is implemented, and other factors that may have a direct and adverse effect on public health, the idea proposed by the author seems indefensible.
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Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, even so, for instance, in addition, such as, in my opinion, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2271.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 469.0 407.700716846 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84221748401 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58943614607 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484008528785 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 702.0 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.8803672762 48.9658058833 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7391304348 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3913043478 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69565217391 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20967738948 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.071532253997 0.076458572812 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046552438908 0.0737576698707 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136821306455 0.150856017488 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318584884899 0.0645574589148 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 86.8835125448 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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