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.
Do you agree or disagree?
It is argued that governments should levy a tariff on junk food because the number of health risks associated with consuming this kind of food is on the rise. This essay agrees that a higher rate of tax should be paid by fast-food companies. Firstly, alcohol and tobacco companies already pay higher taxes and secondly, higher taxes could 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 has been used 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.
Increasing taxes would raise prices and lower consumption. 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, junk food should be taxed at a higher rate because of the good precedent set by alcohol and tobacco and the fact that the increased cost should reduce the amount of fast-food people buy
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 202, 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 f...
^^^^
Line 5, column 368, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'publics'' or 'public's'?
Suggestion: publics'; public's
...ch would be less harmful to the general publics health For instance the cost of organic...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1318.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8102189781 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38995090113 2.80592935109 85% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 176.041082164 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492700729927 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 409.5 506.74238477 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 16.0721442886 6% => 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: 274.0 20.2975951904 1350% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.4020404114 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1318.0 106.682146367 1235% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 274.0 20.7667163134 1319% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 95.0 7.06120827912 1345% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273306718202 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.273306718202 0.084324248473 324% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0667982634062 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167629955277 0.151304729494 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0489299972979 0.056905535591 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 138.2 13.0946893788 1055% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -198.17 50.2224549098 -395% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.44779559118 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 109.0 11.3001002004 965% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.1 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 20.74 8.58950901804 241% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 61.0 78.4519038076 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 9.78957915832 562% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 111.6 10.1190380762 1103% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 55.0 10.7795591182 510% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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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 5, column 202, 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 f...
^^^^
Line 5, column 368, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'publics'' or 'public's'?
Suggestion: publics'; public's
...ch would be less harmful to the general publics health For instance the cost of organic...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1318.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8102189781 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38995090113 2.80592935109 85% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 176.041082164 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492700729927 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 409.5 506.74238477 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 16.0721442886 6% => 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: 274.0 20.2975951904 1350% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.4020404114 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1318.0 106.682146367 1235% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 274.0 20.7667163134 1319% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 95.0 7.06120827912 1345% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273306718202 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.273306718202 0.084324248473 324% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0667982634062 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167629955277 0.151304729494 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0489299972979 0.056905535591 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 138.2 13.0946893788 1055% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -198.17 50.2224549098 -395% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.44779559118 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 109.0 11.3001002004 965% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 12.1 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 20.74 8.58950901804 241% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 61.0 78.4519038076 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 9.78957915832 562% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 111.6 10.1190380762 1103% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 55.0 10.7795591182 510% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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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.