turning their budget problems around. what was the situation in kansas? we had $876 and $500 million projected zist. we now have $3500 million in the bank, a billion dollar swing, didn t raise taxes, we cut them and we took all taxes off of small business, all llc and sub income, no stated income tax as a way to grow the economy. that has produced a growing atmosphere within the state of kansas. 5.5% unemployment rate and we re getting the budget deficit under control and we invested in key areas of the economy, like aviation in the state of kansas. it s really what we got to do federally. i think the president has a great chance to do that. john: you said in the address yesterday the entrepreneurial spirit of america can achieve growth. federal government is we set with simple math that the states
citizens out of their life savings. kim nichols says her 77-year-old father was ripped off. he received a phone call from someone saying they were from publisher s clearinghouse. they said he won a mercedes, a nice car and over $1 million. reporter: publisher s clearinghouse had nothing to do with this and doesn t notify winners on the phone. kim s father started getting a flood of phone calls from jamaica s 876 area code with crooks impersonating government officials demanding tax money before he could get the prize. how much money did your father end up giving? he lost $85,000. reporter: $85,000. $85,000. it is devastating. reporter: listen to this a sad exchange between a scammer and woman named bea who shelled out more than $60,000. you have to pay the tax on the check before the check could be cashed. you keep asking for more money, more money. last night i went to bed crying. i don t have no money. the bills are coming. i don t have any oil.
savings. kim nichols says her 77-year-old father was ripped off. he received a phone call from someone saying they were from publisher s clearinghouse. they said he won a mercedes, a nice car and over $1 million. reporter: publisher s clearinghouse had nothing to do with this and doesn t notify winners on the phone. kim s father started getting a flood of phone calls from jamaica s 876 area code with crooks impersonating government officials demanding tax money before he could get the prize. how much money did your father end up giving? he lost $85,000. reporter: $85,000. $85,000. it is devastating. reporter: listen to this a sad exchange between a scammer and woman named bea who shelled out more than $60,000. you have to pay the tax on the check before the check could be cashed. you keep asking for more money, more money. last night i went to bed crying. i don t have no money. the bills are coming. i don t have any oil.
bill: why not pass the law anyway because you know some people are doing it? constitution laws where you are cross violating cop constitutional law. bill: you know some people are doing it you have to use it for staples. there is a bad apple in every bunch. bill: right. let s have the apple be. not throwing because one bad apple. bill: not throwing away. rules. very easy to be tempted if you get money out of the machine at the casino or the liquor store to spend it there. it s much easier to have a law that says you just can t get it out of a machine right there. bill: it will be very interesting discussion. jim, i was little taken aback by the revelation that you were a stripper at one time. for reason. bill: that was below 1950? i m exposed to agent orange. i needed money to get my daughter s spina bifida surgery. bill: have you got to write a book. thank you. california running wild with new laws. 876 of them went to effect in
abused by the dogs. dog bears. bill: isn t the bear bigger than the dog? i would think the dog would get bill: right. the lemg later they know best. what gals me is last year governor brown rejected a law saying kids had to wear helmet while skiing or criminal penalty for parents. you can t have a law for everything. bill: we do have law. this year he signed 876. one of the most controversial of these laws is that if you are a therapist, licensed you can t try to convince somebody they are not gay even if they want you to. these programs, i have done exposes on them. i don t believe in them a conversion therapy. bill: say somebody comes in to you and you are a psychologist or psychiatrist. look can you talk me out of being gay and you try they can cuff you. ought to be your right to pursue therapy. bill: yes. they infringe on our freedom all the time. we can pick on these. it s it the cumulative effect.