Slacker has three complementary service tiers, from the entirely free Slacker Basic Radio and the ad-free Slacker Radio Plus to the on-demand access of Slacker Premium Radio.

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Where 3rd-generation Core graphics were divided into two tiers, the new generation is focused on three, two of which are built for performance over efficiency.

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Of these, arguably the most important and certainly the most innovative, are sanctions in each of the three tiers that would affect China's ability to garner billions in undisciplined and largely non- transparent funding from the U.S. capital markets.

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One option, for example, would stretch the tax-band scale by adding one or more new tiers at the top, with tax rates more than three times those in the bottom tier.

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