The bills amount to a $95 billion aid package in total.

The House on Saturday passed a $95 billion aid package that includes two long-awaited bills with $60.8 billion of Ukraine aid and $26 billion in aid to Israel.

The Ukraine bill, which passed with 311 votes in favor, 112 votes against, and one present, will now head to the Senate alongside the Israel aid bill and two others — one with aid for Taiwan and another that forces Tiktok’s parent company to sell it.

    • febra@lemmy.world
      1228·
      8 months ago

      And at the same time if you preach so much free market economics then you should just learn to live with it and don’t buy the product if you don’t like it

      • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
        235·
        8 months ago

        Please show me an example where I

        preach so much free market economics

        (If you don’t find one it’s because I never did.)

      • Iceblade@lemmy.world
        62·
        8 months ago

        Part of maintaining a free market is regulations that punish anti-competitive behaviour.

        • febra@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 months ago

          Sucks for the rich, but I, the average consumer do not care about what some rich guy’s stocks are doing. I will always go for the cheaper, more accessible, better product.

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
        1915·
        8 months ago

        Anything from China is anything but free market. Chinese companies are still owned by the state who practice state capitalism.

        • Eximius@lemmy.world
          104·
          8 months ago

          Free market for me but not for thee.

          Yes, there is a trade war.

          Don’t be naive about NSA and US propaganda/surveillance.

          • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
            82·
            8 months ago

            There doesn’t need to have NSA propaganda when China themselves say they are state capitalists and allow billionaires to flourish.

        • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
          108·
          8 months ago

          That’s not true at all. China has state owned businesses and private owned businesses. You think the Boeing and Microsoft locations in China are owned by the CCP?

          • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
            105·
            8 months ago

            If you’re being pedantic, you’re right, but Chinese companies are still Chinese state-owned-- which Tiktok is.

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  8 months ago

                  It will never cease to amaze me that people can have the full power of the Internet at their fingertips and have the wherewithal to not look something up before saying something stupid.

                  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    8 months ago

                    Of course you’d deny.

                    In the last several years, particularly under Xi Jinping’s rule, there has been an even greater attempt by the political leadership to increase their control over the private sector, reduce its political influence, and ensure its loyalty to the system. This has included expanding the reach of national security policies and regulations. For example, the adoption of the National Intelligence Law in 2017 requires all firms in China to accede to government demands to provide information and data as authorities deem necessary to protect China’s national security. It has also meant using carrots, such as providing industrial policy opportunities to private firms, and sticks, such as the regulatory crackdown on private Internet firms that started in late 2018 and recently concluded. Finally, the CCP has also stepped up efforts to directly influence the corporate governance of private firms, in some cases taking “golden shares” in companies, pushing private firms to form CCP branches (see Figure 3), and integrating firms into the burgeoning “corporate social credit system” (CSCS).

                    https://bigdatachina.csis.org/can-chinese-firms-be-truly-private/