Wisconsin is a case in point. Wisconsin teachers fare slightly worse than the national average with starting salaries of $32,642 and a maximum with a masterâs degree of $60,036. The Tax Foundation says its tax burden is the fourth worst in the U.S. and its QualityCounts rating was a C+, about average.
It puts total Chinese investment in the U.S. at $1.61 trillion as of June 30, 2010.[1] This is not entirely accurate, but it is far better than the figures in the unrevised monthly Treasury reports used by Congress and the media.
'The problem for the U.S. is they owe China so much debt,' he [Shi Yinhong, director of the Center on American Studies at Beijingâs Renmin University] said, referring to the Chinese governmentâs vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds, estimated at about $1.5 trillion..he United States government would owe China exactly zero, if the Chinese government did not decide to buy up U.S. government debt with its dollar earnings instead of just selling them in international currency markets.