In some countries an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating too much fast food. It is therefore necessary for governments to impose a higher tax on this kind of food.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is argued that governments should levy a tariff on junk food because the number of health risks associated with consuming this kind of food is on the rise. This essay agrees that a higher rate of tax should be paid by fast-food companies. Firstly, this essay will discuss the fact that alcohol and tobacco companies already pay higher taxes and secondly, discuss how higher taxes would raise prices and lower consumption.
Higher excise on liqueur and cigarettes has proven to be successful at curbing the harm caused by these substances. This revenue has been used to treat health problems associated with these products and has proven useful in advertising campaigns warning people about the dangers of alcohol and tobacco abuse. Tax from fast food could be used in the same way. The United Kingdom is a prime example, where money from smokers is used to treat lung cancer and heart disease.
Increasing taxes would raise prices and lower consumption. Fast food companies would pass on these taxes to consumers in the form of higher prices and this would lead to people not being able to afford junk food because it is too expensive. Junk food would soon become a luxury item and it would only be consumed occasionally, which would be less harmful to the general public’s health. For instance, the cost of organic food has proven prohibitively expensive for most people and that is why only a small percentage of the population buy it regularly.
In conclusion, junk food should be taxed at a higher rate because of the good precedent set by alcohol and tobacco and the fact that the increased cost should reduce the amount of fast food people buy.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 203, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to junk'
Suggestion: to junk
...lead to people not being able to afford junk food because it is too expensive. Junk ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.5418719212 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 6.10837438424 213% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 8.36945812808 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 20.9802955665 81% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 31.9359605911 106% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1390.0 1207.87684729 115% => OK
No of words: 284.0 242.827586207 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89436619718 5.00649968141 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49498604525 2.71678728327 92% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 139.433497537 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.580463131201 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 422.1 379.143842365 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 3.65517241379 27% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.535466094 50.4703680194 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.833333333 104.977214359 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6666666667 20.9669160288 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.91666666667 7.25397266985 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 6.9802955665 57% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277273551648 0.242375264174 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116312746487 0.0925447433944 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682337098397 0.071462118173 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17888785211 0.151781067708 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0473725947741 0.0609392437508 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 12.6369458128 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.1260098522 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.9458128079 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 11.5310837438 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32886699507 100% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 55.0591133005 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.94827586207 106% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 63.0 Out of 90
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