Read the passage and answer the question :

The volume of information being gained daily shows how wickedly the salt tax has been designed. In order to prevent the use of salt that has not paid the tax which is at times even fourteen times its value, the Government destroys the salt it cannot sell profitably. Thus it taxes the nation's vital necessity; it prevents the public from manufacturing it and destroys what nature manufactures without effort. No adjective is strong enough for characterising this wicked dog-in the-manger policy. From various sources I hear tales of such wanton destruction of the nation's property in all parts of India. Maunds if not tons of salt are said to be destroyed on the Konkan coast. The same tale comes from Dandi. Wherever there is likelihood of natural salt being taken away by the people living in the neighbourhood of such areas for their personal use, salt officers are posted for the sole purpose of carrying on destruction. Thus valuable national property is destroyed at national expense and salt taken out of the mouths of the people.

According to Gandhi the salt monopoly is a fourfold curse, of the following is NOT True of this "fourfold curse" :

A Tax of more than 2000 percent is exacted from starving people.

The correct answer is Option (4) → A Tax of more than 2000 percent is exacted from starving people.

In the passage, Gandhi does not provide a specific tax percentage, let alone mention a tax percentage of more than 2000 percent. The passage primarily emphasizes the following points as part of the fourfold curse of the salt monopoly:

1. Deprivation of people of a valuable, easy village industry.

2. Involvement in the wanton destruction of property that nature produces in abundance.

3. Increased national expenditure due to the destruction of natural salt resources.