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So that they can be taxed, of course.
Well... tax on infinity dollars is (crunches numbers) infinity dollars! Government deficit averted!
Computable. There are countably many computable numbers since there are only countably many possible programs. Non-computable numbers can't be exactly referred to / described / constructed by a program, so if your point of view is that everything is a program, you would say they don't exist.
my point exactly