The main idea of both the reading and the lecture is about imposing taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy food. Although the author mentions some benefits for taxation, the lecturer finds them challenging and provides some counter reasons to refute them all.
First of all, the author states that successful taxation on similar products such as tobacco has opened the eyes of government to apply taxes on not only cigarettes, but also on unhealthy ingredients. In contrast, the lecturer presents that enhancing taxes on cigarettes enforce people to buy much cheaper and low-quality products which are even more hazardous for their well-being. In addition, exposing taxes on unhealthy food does not contribute the less consume. While many people are inclined to use up such ingredients, they are less likely to reduce their usage and employing taxes will not be as beneficial as the government expects.
Furthermore, the author explains that the consequences of smoking and eating unhealthy foods includes all range of the society and it is not fair for them financially , thus, imposing higher taxes would be fair for those people who are not addicted to such behaviors. The lecturer, on the other hand, expresses that government should take into account the amount of people income while imposing taxes. People have either higher salary or lower income. Raising a great deals of money as taxes would make poorer people suffer more since they have lower income to cover their expenses. This is logical for imposing taxes on unhealthy foods as well.
Eventually, the reading claims that government can invest the money from taxes on building facilities for people such as recreational centers, parks and educational centers. However, the lecturer denies this fact, pointing out that this idea would have some drawbacks. If the government spend this money on projects and services, they will be more dependent on such revenues to do such facilities and don't legislate the laws and policies to eliminate the whole negative behaviors. For instance, they are reluctant to regulate laws neither on smoking in public place nor indoor spaces. Thus, they are less likely to uproot these problems completely due to the fact that they rely on this money to keep up with building the infrastructures.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, thus, well, while, as to, for instance, in addition, in contrast, such as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1925.0 1373.03311258 140% => OK
No of words: 370.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2027027027 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63684609544 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532432432432 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 594.9 419.366225166 142% => 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: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5661946307 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.3125 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.125 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.625 7.06452816374 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => 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: 0.251681775857 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0922647527039 0.0996497079465 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0800025418455 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16242046485 0.162205337803 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0801799850272 0.0443174109184 181% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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