Not such a good way to begin an introduction

The first sentence of your introduction:

There is a lot of debate about spending money.

This is not such a good way to begin your introduction. A lot of students like to begin with something like there is a lot of debate about… However, it is important that the topic is something that people actually debate in public. In this case, spending money is not something that there is really a lot of debate about.  Better is something like this:

There is a lot of debate about what the government should spend money on.

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