tpo 53 increasing taxes on cigarettes and the benefits
In this case of materials, the text and the lecture offers two opposing views on the possibility of whether taxes are beneficial for everyone or not. With this in mind, the author casts doubt on benefits that can be provided for everyone through these taxes. The lecture on the other hand, categorically, refutes all these episodes of argument mentioned in the passage, believing that those specific claims can be challenged.
First, the passage claims that increasing the taxes can discourage smokers from paying so much money on buying such unhealthy commodity. In contrast, the speaker counteracts this idea, mentioning that high taxes can lead people to buy low quality cigarettes. There for, these cigarettes contain more harmful substances that can provide huge health risk. Moreover, she is of the opinion that, despite of high prices of these cigarettes people continue buying them, consequently, less money would be left for them to be spent on healthy food.
Moreover, this reading asserts that such taxes are fair because these people will be sick as result of smoking, which it burdens a lot of taxes on the society, additionally it is not fair that healthy people and nonsmokers should pay as much money as they do to cover their medical costs. The lecture challenges this viewpoint stating that, as smokers doesn't earn equally, these high taxes can create burden for small income citizens more than high earners. She explains that this is unfair that people that earn more money have to pay equal tax that wealthy people should pay.
Finally, the author holds the view that increasing taxes on smoke can obviously benefit government as its income will rise consequently. In fact, the writer supports this idea that this extra money can be exploited to build new facilities such as schools or stadiums. On the other hand, the professor repudiates this opinion and believes that the government has avoid doing some prohibitive actions in order that discourage or prohibit people from smoking, in order to gain this money. Take it as example, she states that it has ceased hindering people from smoking in outdoor places, such as parks, because it can provide less profit for it if people stop smoking.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Two successive sentences begin with the same adverb. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... them to be spent on healthy food. Moreover, this reading asserts that such taxes a...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...this viewpoint stating that, as smokers doesnt earn equally, these high taxes can crea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, if, moreover, so, in contrast, in fact, such as, 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: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 22.412803532 219% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 367.0 270.72406181 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08174386921 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48635474591 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 145.348785872 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539509536785 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 419.366225166 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.6040331744 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.214285714 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2142857143 21.698381199 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85714285714 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.125570546067 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523741030252 0.0996497079465 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048993626856 0.0662205650399 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0812862113625 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249847594842 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.3589403974 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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