The reading passage is mainly talking about the benefits of imposing high taxes on unhealthy behavior, such as smoking and eating unhealthy food. However, the professor in the lecture provides several reasons and examples to question and deny those viewpoints in the reading passage.
First of all, the professor points out that imposing high taxes doesn't really prevent people from unhealthy behaviors. Instead, those people would tend to buy lower quality unhealthy products and thus make their health even worse.
Secondly, although this kind of taxes seems financially fair, it's actually not. For example, under the same number of taxes, it's bigger proportional to the properties of poor people but less proportional to those of rich people.
Finally, despite those high taxes increase revenue for the government and can be used on many government-supported services, but there is also a risk that the government would overly rely on this income source. For instance, the governments probably won't want to forbid smoking radically due to it doesn't want to lose the high taxes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 65, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...sor points out that imposing high taxes doesnt really prevent people from unhealthy be...
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Line 5, column 63, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...s kind of taxes seems financially fair, its actually not. For example, under the sa...
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Line 7, column 299, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...t to forbid smoking radically due to it doesnt want to lose the high taxes.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, really, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, for instance, kind of, such as, talking about, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 918.0 1373.03311258 67% => OK
No of words: 172.0 270.72406181 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33720930233 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 4.04702891845 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71911587292 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 145.348785872 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.656976744186 0.540411800872 122% => OK
syllable_count: 275.4 419.366225166 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4533143726 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.75 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 19.25 7.06452816374 272% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206991976131 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855622061043 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0649930840302 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116281741317 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322227763731 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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