The article and the lecture are both about the taxation on cigarettes and unhealthy foods. The lecturer challenges each of the writer's points on reasons for raising these taxes.
First, the speaker is doubtful that the taxes will change unhealthy behaviors in people. She explains if the price of cigarettes gets higher, smokers will turn to purchase cheaper types of cigarettes. This will consequently impose a much greater health risk to these users. As for the unhealthy foods, consumers may keep buying them even if they comes at an expensive cost due to the high taxes. As a result, these consumers will have less money left to spend on healthy food and beverages.
Second, although nonsmokers may find the taxes of unhealthy behaviors financially fair, it is still unfair, considering the differences in people's incomes. For example, the high taxes will become an expense for smokers with low income, as compared to high earning ones. The same can be applied for junk food. Therefore, it can be considered fair to shift the financial burdens from all of society to just those low earning people who smoke or have fast food.
Third, the lecturer points out that using the taxes as a way to increase the government's revenue has its own downside. Since the high taxation of cigarettes can add up to millions of dollars, the government may be become dependent on it and thus, not wanting to lose this high revenue. This can lead to radical measures from the government, such as forcing laws to ban smoking in public areas, so they can get more benefits from fining smokers and unhealthy eaters.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 347, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'come'
Suggestion: come
...umers may keep buying them even if they comes at an expensive cost due to the high ta...
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Line 7, column 78, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...sing the taxes as a way to increase the governments revenue has its own downside. Since the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, if, may, second, so, still, therefore, third, thus, as for, for example, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 12.0772626932 25% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1334.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90441176471 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51954942902 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606617647059 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 402.3 419.366225166 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6712416703 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.2857142857 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4285714286 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.14285714286 7.06452816374 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.459141952786 0.272083759551 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13526479139 0.0996497079465 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609925926193 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246295531856 0.162205337803 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0786804749489 0.0443174109184 178% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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