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.
In the passage, the act of adding higher taxes to unhealthy foods is encouraged but, the lecturer points out many downsides of such policy.
First, the article discusses that the high taxes will dicourage the people from unhealthy behaviors such as, smoking or ingesting unhealthy foods to which the lecturer disputes that, this action may lead to either the users buying low quality produce like smokers buying lower quality tabacco which may lead to bigger issues, or buying unhealthy products even though their expensive and then having less money to buy healthy foods.
Second, the article points out that it will be fair for the consumers of unhealthy products to pay more for the inconviniences and health issue they bring upon themselves. However, the lecturer believes that fairness has many layers and is based on the perspectives of each person. people with higher incomes will have less burden paying for the extra tax than people with lower incomes.
Lastly, in the article it's said that high rate of taxation will raise the revenue for the government leading to betterment of facilities and other improvements. The lecturer points that the income from the tax would be in millions, leading to the governments dependency on the income generated from taxation, which will prevent them from enacting radicall rules such as prohibiting smoking in outdoor areas so they would not lose the income generated from higher tax.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: People
...sed on the perspectives of each person. people with higher incomes will have less bur...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 300, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tives of each person. people with higher incomes will have less burden paying for...
^^
Line 4, column 247, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...ax would be in millions, leading to the governments dependency on the income generated from...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, lastly, may, second, so, then, such as
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: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1200.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12820512821 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46127135303 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.57264957265 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 358.2 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => 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: 33.0 21.2450331126 155% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 111.999271135 49.2860985944 227% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 171.428571429 110.228320801 156% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.4285714286 21.698381199 154% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.42857142857 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.228766670902 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101420734497 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422993330648 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140956576843 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0165758546908 0.0443174109184 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.4 13.3589403974 145% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.07 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.7273730684 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.498013245 145% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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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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 282, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: People
...sed on the perspectives of each person. people with higher incomes will have less bur...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 300, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tives of each person. people with higher incomes will have less burden paying for...
^^
Line 4, column 247, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...ax would be in millions, leading to the governments dependency on the income generated from...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, lastly, may, second, so, then, such as
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: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1200.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 234.0 270.72406181 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12820512821 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91114542567 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46127135303 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.57264957265 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 358.2 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 13.0662251656 54% => 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: 33.0 21.2450331126 155% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 111.999271135 49.2860985944 227% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 171.428571429 110.228320801 156% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.4285714286 21.698381199 154% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.42857142857 7.06452816374 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.228766670902 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101420734497 0.0996497079465 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422993330648 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140956576843 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0165758546908 0.0443174109184 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.4 13.3589403974 145% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.44 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.07 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.7273730684 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.498013245 145% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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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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.