Both the passage and the lecture discuss putting high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food. The reading states that these high taxes will have several advantages. On the other hand, the professor claims that those arguments are challenging and opposes each one.
First, the passage claims that high taxes will inhibit people from doing unhealthy behaviors because it makes the products expensive, and people cannot easily buy them anymore. Nevertheless, the professor denies this view and explains that imposing high taxes will not necessarily lead to a decrease in unhealthy behaviors. She states that when cigarettes become expensive, people buy cheaper cigarettes, which are more harmful to the human body. As a result, if the government put high taxes on unhealthy food, consumers will still buy them, and they will have less money to buy healthy food.
Second, the reading indicates that it is fair to put taxes on cigarettes because those who use them are more likely to get sick. If they need medical care, they should primarily pay for it. Nonetheless, the lecturer rejects this idea and illustrates that this is unfair because people do not have similar incomes. Some have high incomes, and those taxes are not a great deal for them. She describes that those taxes are a much bigger burden on those who have lower incomes.
Finally, the author states that imposing high taxes will increase government revenue, and the government can effectively use that money. However, the speaker refutes it, saying that this idea has some downsides. She claims that the government will be dependent on that money, so the government will not be forceful enough to stop unhealthy behaviors. She mentions that the government will not put radical regulations like inhibiting people from smoking in the public area because it does not want to lose the income.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, still, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1561.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13486842105 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47948429415 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506578947368 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 484.2 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.0445586896 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5625 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5625 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.427219509305 0.272083759551 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150197294779 0.0996497079465 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075678224305 0.0662205650399 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269364232909 0.162205337803 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0504395177468 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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