In some countries an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating too much fast food. It is therefore necessary for governments to impose a higher tax on this kind of food.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The excessive fast food consumption in a few countries is causing health problems. Implementing higher taxes on it can solve those problems. This essay agrees that fast food companies should pay higher rate of tax. Firstly, this essay will discuss that alcohol and tobacco companies are already paying higher taxes and secondly, discuss how higher taxes would raise prices and lower consumption.
Higher excise on liqueur and cigarettes has proven to be successful at curbing the harm caused by these substances. This revenue is use to treat health problems associated with these products and has proven useful in advertising campaigns warning people about the dangers of alcohol and tobacco abuse. Tax from fast food could be used in the same way. The United Kingdom is a prime example, where money from smokers is used to treat lung cancer and heart disease. The UK is generating more than 70 per cent of treatment fund by taxing cigarettes.
Increasing taxes would raise prices and lower consumption. This is the law of economics that as the price goes up, the use of it declines. Fast food companies would pass on these taxes to consumers in the form of higher prices and this would lead to people not being able to afford junk food because it is too expensive. Junk food would soon become a luxury item and it would only be consumed occasionally, which would be less harmful to the general public’s health. For instance, the cost of organic food has proven prohibitively expensive for most people and that is why only a small percentage of the population buy it regularly.
In conclusion, the concern authorities should apply higher tax on junk food because of the good precedent set by alcohol and tobacco. Additionally, the increased cost should reduce the amount of fast food people buy. It is predicted that if necessary action is not taken, the fast food consumption will increase in future.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
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Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...ed by these substances. This revenue is use to treat health problems associated wit...
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Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to junk'
Suggestion: to junk
...lead to people not being able to afford junk food because it is too expensive. Junk ...
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Line 4, column 313, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...the fast food consumption will increase in future.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, for instance, in conclusion, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1591.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 321.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95638629283 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63009908952 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532710280374 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 488.7 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1598468189 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5882352941 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8823529412 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05882352941 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288371445334 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103018435781 0.084324248473 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063443769463 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182696795844 0.151304729494 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382954972629 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.0946893788 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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