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The reading passage contends that the United States’ first advanced income tax, called the Revenue Act of 1862, was advantageous. On the other hand, the lecturer brings up several ideas that contradict this argument.
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First of all, the speaker points that only 3% of the tax was applied to the costs of the war. This is attributed the fact that high tariffs, luxury taxes and loans were mainly used for the war expanses. This refutes the author’s point that the tax was a part of fund and used as the expanses of the war. 전쟁목적으로 사용되었다/아니다, 하는 사실여부에 대한 찬반양론이 아니라 'advantageous or not'의 문제로 대립하고 있기 때문에 각 지문의 내용에 좀 더 명확한 주장이 포함되는 것도 좋을 것 같아요.
Moreover, in the lecture, the point is made that the act was thought to be discriminatory. It is because the act forced people with high salaries to pay taxes in higher rates, which and was seemed to punish them for their success. This casts doubt on the idea in the reading passage that the act made people pay tax based on their capacity and it was considered to be fair. fairness와 관련해 대립되는 주장이 잘 정리된 문단입니다.
The final point made by the lecturer is that the tax gave excessive authority to the government. It is obvious that the act was invasion of privacy and tactics to gather tax were too oppressive. This is different from the reading passage’s view that the new tax made the federal government more powerful to estimate and accumulate taxes. 정부의 권위라는 point를 잡은 점이 적절합니다.
Writing 0–30 score scale
Good (24–30)