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.
As of December/2010, the United States owed China $1.164 trillion. There is currently $4.3 trillion owed to countries such as China, Japan and the United Kingdom. China owns roughly 27% of this total. The United States currently has a public outstanding debt total of over $14.1 trillion.Of this total, China owns roughly 8%. Interesting note-it initially appeared as though China was slowing down their purchases of US debt in 2010.The United Kingdom, on the other hand, was rapidly ramping up their purchases-so much so, in fact, that the United Kingdom's holdings of US debt increased over 200% in 2010.s you are likely well aware, the United States has a staggeringly high public debt load. At the time that this article was written, the total US public debt load was approximately $14.1 trillion.