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.
Even though its total share of the total U.S. public debt outstanding fell from 8.5% to 7.9% between FY 2012 and FY 2013, China increased the amount of its holdings of U.S. government-issued debt by nearly $130 billion, lending approximately 18% of all the new debt borrowed by the U.S. Treasury in Fiscal Year 2013.