TPO 53- 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.
The reading and lecture are both about taxation on tobacco products and unhealthy foods. The author of the reading believes that taxation on these products can increase social benefits in the society. However, the lecturer casts doubts about the claims made in the article and refutes all the theories presented in the article.
First of all, the author points out that high taxes discourages consumption on unhealthy food and tobacco products. It is mentioned that high taxation resulted in few people buying cigarettes and unhealthy food can reduce obesity. Conversely, the point is challenged by the lecturer. She says that increasing tax on cigarettes cannot lead to healthy lifestyle, rather consumers still continue to purchase cheap low quality cigarettes which contain harmful toxins in the body that are greater health risk. Moreover, she argues that consumers continue to buy unhealthy products they prefer even it is much expensive, so less money are allocated for healthy foods.
Secondly, the author contends that taxes are financially fair. The article notes that the tax on tobacco and unhealthy foods are source for extra income for medical cost for the people. On the contrary, the lecturer rebuts this argument. She suggests that high taxation is unfair for individual that earned minimum wage. Furthermore, she elaborates on this by mentioning that workers that belonged to low earners are greater exposed on high taxation on tobacco and unhealthy products compared to those with high income.
Finally, the author states that high rate on taxation on cigarettes can increase the revenue of the government. The article establishes that tax can fund projects such as building public parks and stadiums. The lecturer, on the other hand posits that the government will depend on the million dollar revenue for the high taxation of tobacco products. She puts forth the idea that the government will not implement new laws to eradicate unhealthy habits of its citizens. In addition, the government are not implementing banning of smoking in outdoor place in public and private location because they don't want to lose income on taxation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 600, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...ublic and private location because they dont want to lose income on taxation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, in addition, such as, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 5.01324503311 339% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1816.0 1373.03311258 132% => OK
No of words: 343.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2944606414 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58268889732 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.521865889213 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 558.0 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8030325803 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.888888889 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0555555556 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => 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 : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => 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: 0.280256310876 0.272083759551 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835924072741 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0586576969094 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167335594002 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0748729235797 0.0443174109184 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.3589403974 97% => OK
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: 13.4 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => 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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