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 Chinese do own a lot of U.S. debt -- $1.189 trillion as of October 2017. Breaking Down Ownership of US Debt. By mid-2017, the total amount of official debt owed by the federal, state and local governments was more than $19.4 trillion. That figure is expected to reach at least $20.2 trillion by the start of 2018.