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 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 burdens are shifted from all of society to just those who choose to participate in 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
Task 1
The lecture and article discuss the benefits of imposing high taxes on unhealthy products, such as cigarettes and unhealthy food. The article suggested that there are three main advantages can be gained from this policy. The lecturer, on the other hand, stated responded that each argument in the article can be challenged.
To begin with, the article states that high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food will reduce its consumption. However, the lecturer pointed out that imposing high taxes on such products will not lead to healthier lifestyle. She explained that smokers will buy cheaper cigarettes, which have greater health risk than other types. Moreover, individuals will maintain their unhealthy life quality even after imposing high taxes on these products.
Second, the author of the article claimed that high taxes on unhealthy products are fair. According to the article taxes are necessary to cover medical costs resulted from unhealthy habits. In contrast, the lecturer argued that this suggested law might be seen fair for people, who follow healthy lifestyle, but it does not take into account the people income. She elaborated that imposing high taxes on these products will be greater burden for people with low income.
Finally, the author emphasized that taxes come from these products will augment revenue for the government, which will be used for improving the medical and educational system. Eventually, it will bring the prosperity to the country. The lecturer cast doubt this argument. She mentioned that government will depend more on the taxes come from selling unhealthy products, hence it cannot lose this income. The lecturer went further and said that government will not take any action to eliminate unhealthy practices in the country.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, however, if, moreover, second, in contrast, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1507.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 282.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34397163121 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49494484129 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528368794326 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.066513525 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.1875 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.625 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.625 7.06452816374 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.350526294343 0.272083759551 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129391634039 0.0996497079465 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111315620339 0.0662205650399 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237215934628 0.162205337803 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0747311438668 0.0443174109184 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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