Like many others, I don’t mind paying taxes if I am getting a decent service. However fixing the health and education needs more than just money, it needs a solution that no one seems to be able to find.
The problem when people say this is that they often don't seem to understand the distortions in the tax system and that higher (but bot super-wealthy) middle-class earners paid through PAYE have been carrying everyone else for a decade already. Many pay marginal tax rates (once you factor in the withdrawal of childcare funding etc) of 85% up to even over 100%! Hence them cutting hours, as it is not worth it.
The taxes levied on this income bracket are among the very highest in the world. Of all groups, they can't be squeezed any further. Meanwhile the truly wealthy - whose income comes from capital - pay far, far lower rates. As do self-employed people. These things all distort economic activity and reduce productivity.
Similar is true for Universal Credit claimaints: the severe taper rate makes working more hours not seem worthwhile.
The first thing a sensible Chancellor would do is to remove these distortions and cliff-edges.
But fundamentally what the UK public will have to accept is that if they wish to have Scandinavian or even French/ German levels of services it is middle income earners who pay far, far less tax in the UK than in those countries. Higher earners already pay Scandinavian rates, but receive services of the level of a developing country in return. That is how you break the social contract and destroy social cohesion, as we are seeing increasingly.
I've yet to meet a higher earner who isn't accepting of paying more than lower earners, but to suggest they're not pulling their weight is factually inaccurate. They have been funding everyone else for years already. It is middle-income earners that must pay far more if they wish to have "European" level services, and no, I don't mean £50 per month more, I mean a significantly higher percentage of salary. Otherwise it is mathematically impossible. Although economic measures to improve productivity would obviously vastly improve salaries and living standards for everyone, per my post above.
Obviously the super-wealthy should be taxed far more also but due to their very small number this is not and will never be sufficient to fund what people expect. The "someone else should pay it" attitude means decent services in the UK will be unachievable, alongside its dysfunctional tax system, lack of appropriate industrial strategy, refusal to adapt its public institutions like the NHS and education to make them fit for purpose, and then as the icing on the cake deciding to shoot itself in the face with Brexit, like letting off a bomb on a sinking ship.