as abc 7's laura anthony reports, many of the compaes are in the bay area and include some familiar names. >> reporter: what an east beta co- bell, a pittsburgh car dealership and a sa francisco cement companyll have in common? they're all on a notorious state list of the top 250 businesses that have failed to pay their sales taxes. >> there is about $322 million outstanding now. >> reporter: of the top 250, 42 are bay area business that collectively owe $80 million. theynclude san francisco's pacificement company, $3.1 milli. san ramon wells interior, $2.4 million. and san jose south bay auto, $2 million. alsomong those who failed to pay the former owners of this lafayette taco bell who owe $836,000. that debt dates back to 2002 and like most of them, the state hasn't been able to collect. >> get craftier and aggressive and we need to do the same. >> reporter: implicating the coection efforts of the state, most of the companies on this list lik the furniture store that used to occupy this building in san ramon, are no longer in business. by far, the most common offenders, car dealerships

look at the way -- you see people in their 80's -- in fact, anthony store the other day, famous british psychologist who died at age 80 was giving a lecture at oxford at the university there. he was one of the fellows. he was 80 years old and has continued to be active, writing books. >> how do do you spell his name? >> storr. >> that leads me to another man who lived over 100 and at certain periods in his life, in order to move from one activity or avocation to another, we can get into that in a moment, because you are a favor of avocations, are you not? >> yes. >> not to be confused with hunting. >> that's correct. >> you are concerned that when your brain is used that, keeps the brain healthy? >> no question about it. look at grandma moses. she started painting at 77 and lived to be 103. >> this gentleman's name was saure. he not only changes avocations but after a certain number of years he would change his name. you think that's carrying things too far? >> i think if he was starting off with a clean slate -- >> in order to live longer, should people avoid retirement? we'll answer t

abc 7's laura anthony is live tonight to explain what these standards mean. laura?> well, i can show you. bats that are less lively, possibly head gear, face gear for pitchers and fielders. baseball in california going to look different next spring. >> this is cf 4. >> until today, this $400 cf 4 bat was the hottest seller at all out baseball. for high school players looking to get that extra pop at the plate. >> anywhere in there you're going get a base hit. >> now, california interscholastic federation banned it at the high school level n their place, bats measured by a new standard called bb core, batted coal co-efficient of restitution. >> standard is reduction of 15% to 20%. has to do with not only exit speed which is old standard but the speed of the pitch coming n how the bat reacts once the ball is hit. you know, hits the bat, then exit speed. >> new standard is seven months after severe brain injury to a pitcher gunner sandberg hit by a ball off a bat. >> when the ball hits the bat, the bat bends, then snaps like a trample yeen. this is making it difficult

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anthony. i think it may be important to know what it was we were supposed to do. the market i came to in the 70's -- i was not there at the beginning. when i came in the 1970 cost the homeowner would have -- smaller communities did not have access to 30-year loans at fair prices. there was little standardization and that was true for underwriting documentation. the most important contribution was to standardize the securitization process. they allowed equal access and lower rates for many years. they also determine the level of acceptable credit risk. you could not get anything done without agency underwriting or standards. you could not create an rmbs that was not agency standard. the agencies for three decades did their job. they provided standardization and liquidity. there was the critical fall that the secretary talked about, the implicit government guarantee. it gave them the force to create the modern market. since the government guaranteed was provided free and with less oversight, the moral hazard was always there. the privatization of profits -- the answer to the question is in 2000 to

anthony. i think it may be important to know what it was we were supposed to do. the market i came to in the 70's -- i was not there at the beginning. when i came in the 1970 cost the homeowner would have -- smaller communities did not have access to 30-year loans at fair prices. there was little standardization and that was true for underwriting documentation. the most important contribution was to standardize the securitization process. they allowed equal access and lower rates for many years. they also determine the level of acceptable credit risk. you could not get anything done without agency underwriting or standards. you could not create an rmbs that was not agency standard. the agencies for three decades did their job. they provided standardization and liquidity. there was the critical fall that the secretary talked about, the implicit government guarantee. it gave them the force to create the modern market. since the government guaranteed was provided free and with less oversight, the moral hazard was always there. the privatization of profits -- the answer to the question is in 2000 to

anthony presiding over cesar's funeral. i think it is important to know what it was they were supposed to do and did. i can do this very quickly. the market i came to in the 70's no, i was not there in 1936. it has been a pretty tough time, but i am not that old. when i came to this market in the 1970 proxy, the would-be homeowners faced significant regional pricing differences. secondary cities and small communities did not have access to 30-year loans at fair prices. there was little standardization regardless of how the early agencies, in their early form, tried which was true for underwriting appraisal and documentation. the most important contribution was to standardize mortgage or eight -- mortgage origination. they created a large liquid and efficient market. they allowed equal access and lower rates. they determine the level of acceptable credit risks. you could not get anything done without agency underwriting and agency standards, even if it was not going to the gse's. you could not create one that was not agency standard. for three decades, the agencies did their jobs. they provided with the charter required. they provided access. they provided stan