So many people see the tax-exempt status of churches in the US and think, "why isn't government plundering that, too?" instead of, "Why are we allowing the State to rob anyone?" I was just listening to a podcast about the history of Columbus and how he turned to what was effectively taxation of the natives as his first scheme to plunder all the gold he could. But people can't call that taxation because it would require them to rethink what they accept in today's status quo. And of course the flip side of "the state needs to control religion" is the loony anti-library movement in the new Trans Scare echoing the Satanic Panic over rock music and backmasking from the 1980s.
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