higher cigarettes taxes
The reading passage and the lecture are both about high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods. The writer suggests that these taxes can result in several benefits, and several reasons are given in support of this statement. As reasonable as these points seem, the professor in the lecture casts doubt on them, indicating that there are some downsides.
To begin with, the author claims that the higher the taxes on unhealthy products, the fewer people want to buy them. Conversely, disputing the argument in the article, the lecturer details that high taxes probably will lead people to buy cheaper cigarettes, which are unhealthier and will pose more negative impacts on people's health. Furthermore, people might continue to buy unhealthy foods, despite the high taxes, which is because they don't have money to buy healthy foods generally being more expensive. Therefore, she believes that higher taxes won't benefit people's health.
Second, even though the author states that increasing taxes offset the medical costs induced by those smokers and bring financial fairness to those healthy people, the lecturer argues that it is a misconception. This is because increasing taxes doesn't take smokers' income into account. It probably can create more burden on smokers having lower income. Accordingly, the lecture dismisses the fairness that higher taxes will bring.
Last but not least, the lecturer acutely identifies a weakness in the passage that growing taxes can increase government revenue, which they can utilize to build infrastructures to benefit the public welfare. She points out that because of the large amount of income, the government will gradually rely on it. They are unlikely to enforce some policies, rules, and laws regarding banning smoking in public areas or eliminating unhealthy behaviors since they don’t want to lose this substantiated money. As a result, the lecturer rules out the benefit of increasing taxes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 440, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...e the high taxes, which is because they dont have money to buy healthy foods general...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ption. This is because increasing taxes doesnt take smokers income into account. It pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, conversely, furthermore, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1641.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36274509804 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57078232883 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3636061767 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.4 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.13333333333 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.242471809755 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0895418138323 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0981977072032 0.0662205650399 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134182179244 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0574985388984 0.0443174109184 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.3589403974 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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