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.
A small tax is regressive, but also effective in educating us & helping to encourage different choices. A vivid little picture of the amount of sugar & fat on the label of the junk food we buy would be great, as well as a âhealth taxâ on all that stuff. But industry & folks like you would go berserk at that.The obesity crisis IS a REAL crisis in this country, as is the cost of health care. small tax is regressive, but also effective in educating us & helping to encourage different choices. A vivid little picture of the amount of sugar & fat on the label of the junk food we buy would be great, as well as a âhealth taxâ on all that stuff. But industry & folks like you would go berserk at that.