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Oregon Put a Fee on Your Groceries. You Can't See What You're Paying. | Taxation Tuesday
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- Sep 1, 2026
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Text the show! Oregon put a packaging fee on thousands of companies. There's just one problem: when you buy the product, you can't see what you're paying. And Oregon already knows how to do this differently. Buy a mattress and the recycling fee appears on your receipt. Buy paint and the fee is disclosed. Return a bottle and there's a dime attached to it — a dime that helped Oregon's bottle bill automatically correct itself when return rates fell. Then you get to groceries. Dozens of packagin...