Obviously YOU are gleeful that it'll hurt your supposed "enemies"; so now other CONSERVATIVES are your enemies, I guess. Well count me in that group, because yes, I am your enemy!
Why should the country allow you to take off mortgage payments? People should live within their means and NOT borrow!
Worse still, is that people who pay NO taxes get a "refund"! A "refund" ?
There are lots of things wrong with the Fed Taxes as they stand now, but this is NOT a "fix"! And neither you nor I nor anyone else knows what the brackets will be, how many of them are to be.
You sound like you'd be happy living in the stone age. Without people willing to borrow money to build something today for benefits in the future we'd all be living in grass huts.
Mortgage deductions help incentivize people to buy real estate, generating millions of jobs and a significant portion of our economy. The federal government extracts money from the owners of that real estate when they sell their property.