You make an excellent point on the relationship of the vassals and the lords. The name we have for our homes and land, real estate, has the word royal (real) in it, again recognizing the approach that says everything belongs to the sovreign with the vassals/serfs being granted a small portion as long as they pay a tribute/tax (shades of the Hunger Games!!) to the sovreign.
Sorta puts the lie to "the schools will collapse if we don't have huge property tax". It's really about cash for the overseer class...
I don't think that utopian thinkers in the 19th century really understood what they were unleashing with the Free Schools movement. It was all well intentioned.
But the looter class once again sensed an opportunity. Give us your money, or we take your land. And you can't get rid of us, because we ARE the government, the unelected part of it, and we OWN the elected guys.
People say it can't be stopped. Well, we can try.