Claim: In order to help small businesses thrive, government should play a minimal role in private business
matters.
Small businesses need many conditions in place in order to thrive: startup capital, a suitable location
and physical infrastructure, shrewd founders who can adapt to changing circumstances — and also, of
course, customers. While, in general, a government’s hands-off policy towards small business can help
small businesses by freeing owners from time-consuming and cumbersome regulations, it is also the case
that some government regulations are needed to protect the public from unscrupulous business owners.
This type of regulation not only helps the public, but helps small businesses thrive by increasing consumer
confidence in small businesses, as well as protecting ethical small businesses from unfair competition
from businesses that break the rules.
The United States has one of the highest rates of entrepreneurship in the developed world — much
higher than the rates in Western Europe. Why? In the U.S., virtually anyone can start a business. For about
$35, one can obtain a business license, and then you’re officially in businesses. Hiring the first employee
or two is also relatively simple, and some workers can be paid as contractors, which eliminates the need to
administer payroll taxes. In contrast, in Western European nations where you need employment papers
(and sometimes references) to even open a simple checking account, naturally, the regulations and
paperwork needed to start an enterprise can be daunting. Furthermore, laws intended to protect workers
mean that it is virtually impossible to fire anyone, which can be a real burden for a small business that
simply cannot survive with employees who are not up to the task. The lack of regulation in the U.S. is a
strong contributor to the burgeoning of small business in that country.
On the other hand, a pure laissez-faire policy would be disastrous for small business, as well as for
society. Should we allow small businesses to sell “health cures” that actually make people sick, or car
seats for babies that haven’t been through safety testing? Of course not — even if requiring safety testing
puts a burden on small business. The safety of the public is important, to be sure, but public confidence is
also important if small businesses are to have any customers. Furthermore, some small business owners
(just like large business owners) practice racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and other abuses of
workers, such as paying undocumented workers less than minimum wage. It is important for human rights
to curtail these abuses; it also helps small businesses for the government to put a check on such practices,
because then legitimate, ethically-run businesses can compete on a fair playing field.
While this essay propounds a system of minimal to moderate regulation of small businesses, somemight argue that government has no right to intrude on the private dealings of businesses and their
customers. According to this view, if someone wants to offer unlicensed cosmetic injections, and budget-
minded consumers are willing to have their wrinkles filled with who-knows-what, then it is the right of
both parties to transact as they wish. However, in developed nations, governments take on, at very least, the
provision of services that individuals cannot provide for themselves — military defense, the creation of
highways and other infrastructure, and the testing of food and medicine on a wide scale, among others.
Individuals do not have the ability to test every can of baby food for botulism or to evaluate the credentials
of a “doctor.” Thus, in industries in which human health and safety are at issue, some regulation is justified.
How should governments best help small businesses thrive? In some sense, the answer is that
governments should back off and let people do as they will. In a free market, many small businesses will be
launched, many will fail, and the best will survive. However, some government intervention is required to
protect the public from dangerous products and harmful business practices. These regulations ultimately
help small business as a whole by encouraging consumer confidence in these businesses.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 35, column 4, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, thus, well, while, as for, in contrast, in general, of course, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 86.0 58.6224719101 147% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3593.0 2235.4752809 161% => OK
No of words: 656.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47713414634 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06087906887 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09819369798 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 330.0 215.323595506 153% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503048780488 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 1093.5 704.065955056 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.77640449438 676% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 18.0 4.38483146067 411% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.8578442267 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.72 118.986275619 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.24 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 5.21951772744 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 40.0 4.97078651685 805% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292459349385 0.243740707755 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0915685344216 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0960876197357 0.0758088955206 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0723779568201 0.150359130593 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0825808719811 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 11.8971910112 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.