TPO53Independent Task-Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of social benefits.
First of all, the taxes discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors. Raising taxes on cigarettes, for instance, leads people to buy fewer of them. Smoking has declined as taxes on tobacco have risen, showing that these taxes do work to make society healthier. It can be expected that imposing similar taxes on unhealthy food and beverages would help reduce obesity rates.
Second, taxes of this kind are financially fair. When people get sick as a result of their smoking or eating unhealthy foods, they create medical costs. It is unfair that everyone in the society, including nonsmokers and people who follow a healthy diet, should contribute equally to covering these costs. Taxing people who engage in unhealthy behaviors creates extra income that can be used to cover the medical costs. In this way, some of the financial burden is shifted from all of society to just those who choose to participate in the unhealthy activities.
Finally, the high rate of taxation on cigarettes significantly increases revenue for the government. In addition to using this tax revenue on medical assistance, governments often use the revenue for other projects that benefit public welfare, such as building stadiums or creating public parks. Even basic government-supported services like public education benefit from these taxes. Thus, the taxes on cigarettes, and the proposed taxes on unhealthy foods, benefit everyone.
While the reading passage gives some benefits of high taxes, the professor in the lecture says that, these benefits are challenging, and she use some reasons to support her opinion.
First, by increasing taxes people encourage to buy fewer cigarettes and unhealthy food, so in this situation they will become healthier. In contrast, the professor in the lecture rejects this idea, and she further explains that, smokers prefer to buy cheap cigarettes with low quality, instead of quit it. so, it has a great high risk of unhealthy life. In addition, people who addicted eating unhealthy food, prefer to buy it even with high price.
Second, the reading passage states that, taxes are financially fair. On the contrary, the professor in the lecture refuses this idea, and she makes point that, it is not fair and by buying a packet it has an owner income, so it is not fair, and has a great small income.
Third, the reading passage claims that, high taxes increase revenue for the government, and it has benefit for every one. On the other hand, the professor in the lecture says that, for new projects the government has to spend million dollars, so the government depend on these taxes,and it does not want to lose it. so, this policy has limitation. For instance, for building out-door area to smoke, smokers do not want to lose these area and income.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 142, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'uses'.
Suggestion: uses
...these benefits are challenging, and she use some reasons to support her opinion. ...
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Line 9, column 45, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'buying'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'encourage' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: buying
...t, by increasing taxes people encourage to buy fewer cigarettes and unhealthy food, so...
^^^^^^
Line 21, column 227, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a million'.
Suggestion: a million
...ew projects the government has to spend million dollars, so the government depend on th...
^^^^^^^
Line 21, column 283, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , and
... so the government depend on these taxes,and it does not want to lose it. so, this p...
^^^^
Line 21, column 428, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this area' or 'these areas'?
Suggestion: this area; these areas
...a to smoke, smokers do not want to lose these area and income.
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, so, third, while, as to, for instance, in addition, in contrast, on the contrary, on the other hand
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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1148.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90598290598 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41827483578 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 145.348785872 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.517094017094 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 344.7 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => 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: 6.0 1.51434878587 396% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5065636501 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.363636364 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2727272727 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7272727273 7.06452816374 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.182256973202 0.272083759551 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0797071409796 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533045164918 0.0662205650399 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0988738823161 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0660215564327 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 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.