Insulin is released from the beta cells in your pancreas in response to rising glucose in your bloodstream. After you eat a meal, any carbohydrates youâve eaten are broken down into glucose and passed into the bloodstream. The pancreas detects this rise in blood glucose and starts to secrete insulin.
A regressive tax is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases. Regressive describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate progresses from high to low, so that the average tax rate exceeds the marginal tax rate.
adjective. 1  1Returning to a former or less developed state; characterized by regression. âregressive aspects of recent local government reformâ. 2  2(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes. âindirect taxes are, as a group, regressiveâ. 3  3Philosophy. Proceeding from effect to cause or from particular to universal.