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.
Russia is just one of the countries that has billions invested in the U.S. See more money pictures. In 1989, New York real estate investor Seymour Durst spent $120,000 to erect a National Debt Clock in Times Square to track the exact amount of money that the U.S. federal government was borrowing to pay its bills.