In this task, you're given a statement, and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence clearly disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3' corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.

Statement: Why should they allow the district's residents to enjoy a federal tax rate of, say, 15 percent, when they themselves may face rates close to 40 percent? Choices:  1. Why should the residents be allowed to have a lower tax rate?  2. They don't want the residents to have a lower rate because they are facing rates as close to 10 percent too.  3. They should allow the residents to have a lower tax rate because most of them are poor. 
2

Statement: Although GAO took a lot of heat in being out front on this controversial issue, in part due to recent events, we're getting a lot of accolades now! Choices:  1. The controversial issue was quickly shut down and no one jumped on the bandwagon. 2. Controversial issues brought to light by GAO, are gaining support at a rapidly alarming rate. 3. GAO, despite its controversy, is gaining traction and gathering support.
1

Statement: We're meant to feel that we're coming to the end of the line, an impression confirmed in Domenico Gnoli's painting of an empty table covered with a lace tablecloth, Without a Still Life (1966), placed toward the end of the show and chosen for the cover of the catalog. Choices:  1. Gnoli painted an empty pool. 2. Gnoli painted an empty table. 3. Gnoli painted an empty table late at night.

1