Taxes to the cigarettes
The reading passage states that increasing taxes for cigarettes and unhealthy foods have a beneficial effect on society. The writer provides some arguments to support this point of view. However, the lecturer finds all the ideas discussed by the reading passage dubious and suggests some evidence to refute them all.
First, the writer claims that high taxes lead to a decrease in the amount of cigarette and unhealthy food that people consume. On the contrary, the professor dismisses this idea due to the fact that by raising taxes people will not change their behavior. They will only buy cheaper cigarettes with low quality which have harmful substances. Therefore, their health level will decline more. Also, people continue to buy unhealthy food at higher prices. So, they will not have enough money to buy healthy foods.
Furthermore, the author asserts that people who use cigarettes and unhealthy foods need more for medical that leads to more cost to the government. It is fair that more taxes are given to them. Conversely, the speaker underlines the fact that taxes should be determined related to people's income. For instance, by determining high taxes to cigarette, when two people with high and low incomes smoke one cigarette packet each day they have to pay the same taxes. however, this amount of tax affects a person with a low income more compared to the person who has a high income.
Finally, the reading passage believes that these taxes can increase the governments' revenue. So, they can spend this money to develop public welfare. The lecturer, on the other hand, makes the argument that these projects need a lot of money. Thus, governments will try to make more money through taxes. In this circumstance, the governments will not forbid smoking in public places in order to raise their income.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 281, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'people'.
Suggestion: people
...t taxes should be determined related to peoples income. For instance, by determining hi...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 462, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...ch day they have to pay the same taxes. however, this amount of tax affects a person wi...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 73, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...ieves that these taxes can increase the governments revenue. So, they can spend this money ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, so, therefore, thus, for instance, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0198019802 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44409438438 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541254125413 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.7169799675 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0526315789 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.9473684211 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281702991829 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875520402578 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0975937039409 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170967748997 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0841023689364 0.0443174109184 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 281, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'people'.
Suggestion: people
...t taxes should be determined related to peoples income. For instance, by determining hi...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 462, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...ch day they have to pay the same taxes. however, this amount of tax affects a person wi...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 73, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...ieves that these taxes can increase the governments revenue. So, they can spend this money ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, so, therefore, thus, for instance, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 303.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0198019802 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44409438438 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541254125413 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.7169799675 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0526315789 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.9473684211 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.57894736842 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281702991829 0.272083759551 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875520402578 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0975937039409 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170967748997 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0841023689364 0.0443174109184 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 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.