“A lot of Republicans were angry because the GOP Congress had just punished them with higher federal taxes...”
No, federal taxes were not raised, in fact they were lowered quite a bit. I’m sure everyone here but you understands the difference between capping a deduction and raising taxes. And I’m sure everyone here but you understands that the problem is taxes in those areas are confiscatory.
It looks like you are fairly new here. Have you showed up to try to sway the next election? I’ll give you a hint, you’re wasting your time here using illogical statements. Those work on Democrat voters only.
No, federal taxes were not raised,
OF course they were. The capping of the deduction raised the amount that many Republicans in California had to pay in federal taxes. This was done to bring in more money to pay for other tax cuts - because the GOP Congress chose to pay for those other cuts by raising revenue on high income homeowners, instead of by cutting spending.