The reading and the lecture are both about making people who smoke cigarettes or eat unhealthy foods pay taxes as a consequence of their actions. While the author argues that this policy incorporates many social benefits, the professor disputes this claim. She states that each of the benefits expressed in the reading passage can be challenged. The lecturer casts doubt on the main points made in the text by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the author begins by saying that the taxes discourage and prevent people from purchasing cigarettes and unhealthy food. However, the professor disagrees with this idea. She asserts that imposing high taxes does not necessarily lead to healthier behavior. Under this condition, people have no choice but to buy lower-quality cigarettes, which are more harmful. Therefore, they put their health even at greater risk. In addition, people may buy more junky foods in reaction to this policy and so they would have less money to spend on healthy foods.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, these taxes are fair since people who indulge in buying cigarettes or consuming unhealthy food have to pay more money, which will be spent on the healthcare system. On the other hand, the professor points out that at first glance, it might be seen as fair that people who use these stuff pay more taxes, but this means that people should pay a certain amount of money regardless of their income, and this is unfair. This policy produces low-income people with a huge burden and puts them in a predicament.
Finally, the writer believes that this policy increases the government's revenue and income so the government can spend this extra money on more beneficial projects. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that this idea has some downsides. This policy provides millions of dollars for the government and makes the government rely on it. As a result, the government will not set proper regulations preventing people from performing unhealthy activities like drinking and smoking in public places since the government does not want to lose this source of income.
To sum up, both the lecturer and the writer hold conflicting views on inflicting taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 61, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...believes that this policy increases the governments revenue and income so the government ca...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, may, so, therefore, while, in addition, as a result, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 7.30242825607 205% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1919.0 1373.03311258 140% => OK
No of words: 371.0 270.72406181 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17250673854 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6624015654 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 145.348785872 139% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544474393531 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 576.9 419.366225166 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.0863507119 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.611111111 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6111111111 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88888888889 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237448422257 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080387455803 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0914889566738 0.0662205650399 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155779506228 0.162205337803 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0593306722327 0.0443174109184 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 63.6247240618 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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