Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of social benefits.
First of all, the taxes discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors. Raising taxes on cigarettes, for instance, leads people to buy fewer of them. Smoking has declined as taxes on tobacco have risen, showing that these taxes do work to make society healthier. It can be expected that imposing similar taxes on unhealthy food and beverages would help reduce obesity rates.
Second, taxes of this kind are financially fair. When people get sick as a result of their smoking or eating unhealthy foods, they create medical costs. It is unfair that everyone in the society—including nonsmokers and people who follow a healthy diet—should contribute equally to covering these costs. Taxing people who engage in unhealthy behaviors creates extra income that can be used to cover the medical costs. In this way, some of the financial burden is shifted from all of society to just those who choose to participate in the unhealthy activities.
Finally, the high rate of taxation on cigarettes significantly increases revenue for the government. In addition to using this tax revenue on medical assistance, governments often use the revenue for other projects that benefit public welfare, such as building stadiums or creating public parks. Even basic government-supported services like public education benefit from these taxes. Thus, the taxes on cigarettes—and the proposed taxes on unhealthy foods—benefit everyone.
The article and the lecture both deal with consequences of high taxes on unhealthy behaviors. Whilst the author claims that the higher taxes benefits people in three possible ways, the lecturer contradicts his arguments respectively.
First, the writer states that high taxes encourages people to quit unhealthy behaviors, including smoking and eating unhealthy food. In contrast, the speaker disagrees this viewpoint. She argues that with the high taxes, people will turn to cheaper cigarettes with lower qualities which are more harmful. Furthermore, she adds that with higher taxes people will spend more money on unhealthy food, consequently they have less money left for healthy food.
Second, according to the reading passage, high taxes are more financially fair. On the other hand, the professor is doubtful that this is inaccurate. She points out that lower income people who engage in unhealthy behavior suffer more from the high taxes than those with higher incomes.
Last but not least, the author posits that high taxes increases revenue for the government by providing more money on public services. However, the lecturer believes that there are flaws in this argument. She asserts that this considerable revenue will cause the government rely on it and do not want to loose it. Consequently, the government would not regulate a strict low to ban the smoking because the government require this income.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 305, Rule ID: LOOSE_LOSE[3]
Message: Did you mean 'lose' (= miss, waste, suffer the loss etc.)?
Suggestion: lose
...overnment rely on it and do not want to loose it. Consequently, the government would ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, second, so, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 15.1003584229 33% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 13.8261648746 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 52.1666666667 44% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1202.0 1977.66487455 61% => OK
No of words: 224.0 407.700716846 55% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36607142857 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.48103885553 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58094407561 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 212.727598566 61% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.580357142857 0.524837075471 111% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 618.680645161 58% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.0313832364 48.9658058833 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.4615384615 100.406767564 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2307692308 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92307692308 5.45110844103 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 11.8709677419 25% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262995418178 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920238157042 0.076458572812 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075563808355 0.0737576698707 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162729257076 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0583138721598 0.0645574589148 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 86.8835125448 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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