The professor contends that taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy food don’t benefit society, challenging all the three reasons giving in the reading respectively.
First of all, the professor points out that the tax won’t lead people to healthier behavior, people will buy cheaper cigarettes with lower quality, which results in more health problems. It is the same with buying unhealthy food since people get more taxes, they will have less money to purchase healthy food. In this way, the reading’s first reason about taxes encourages people to avoid unhealthy food is refuted.
Secondly, we should see fairness from a different perspective. The reading’s opinion doesn’t consider people’s income. For example, paying taxes would be a great expense for people don’t earn much. It’s very likely that taxes will create a great burden for those with lower incomes than for those with higher incomes. This again opposes the reading’s idea that taxes are financially fair.
Finally, about the benefit of increasing revenue for the government mentioned in the reading, the professor argues that government would become more and more dependent on the revenue because it’s a huge amount of money they don’t want to lose. For instance, the government might take radical measures to forbid smoking anywhere, as they want to ensure the income.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, for example, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 10.4613686534 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1188.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 214.0 270.72406181 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55140186916 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82475343497 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77967870051 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.607476635514 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8346141048 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4545454545 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.36363636364 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
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: 0.173986602576 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773031690469 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0592534801449 0.0662205650399 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116500482519 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058752145596 0.0443174109184 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.3589403974 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.91 12.2367328918 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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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.