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.
In this set of materials, the author strongly postulates that taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods has several social benefits and gives three points to endorse its idea. On the other hand, the professor states that these points can be challenged and contradicts each of the points mentioned in the passage.
First and foremost, the passage begins by explaining that taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods discourage unhealthy lifestyles, for example, increasing the taxes on cigarettes and junk food will decrease the number of smokers and the ratio of obesity respectively. In contrast, the professor explains it is not necessary that by increasing the taxes the number of smokers decreases. This can happen, as a result of an increase in taxespeople would buy low-quality cigarettes and unhealthy food which results in more health issues.
Moreover, the professor in the lecture points out that it is unfair in many ways to the people with low income who are smokers to pay high taxes as compared to the people with high income to pay for the non-smoker's medical expenditures. These claims refute the author's implication that the money from the taxes of smokers can be used to pay the medical costs of non-smokers.
Ultimately, the article wraps up its reasons by explaining that tax money from smokers and from the people who eat unhealthy food can increase the government's revenue. Government can use this money to construct stadiums, parks, and public education centers. However, the professor in the listening refutes this point by showing the inaccuracy of the author that Government can get millions of dollars from these taxes and get dependent on this money for many things and maybe will not ban smoking in outdoor parks. This thing is more unhealthy and can cause more damage to the health.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 112, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...many ways to the people with low income who are smokers to pay high taxes as compared t...
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Line 3, column 261, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...l expenditures. These claims refute the authors implication that the money from the tax...
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Line 4, column 148, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...who eat unhealthy food can increase the governments revenue. Government can use this money ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, moreover, so, for example, in contrast, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1513.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 298.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07718120805 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71092136282 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486577181208 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.5219300369 49.2860985944 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.545454545 110.228320801 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0909090909 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.63636363636 7.06452816374 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.333299274744 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129622498236 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0976122196088 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206058233353 0.162205337803 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0868420199677 0.0443174109184 196% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.3589403974 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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