Politics & Power Quote by George W. Bush

The line carries the signature Bush-era move: frame a contested policy preference as a bit of underappreciated common sense. By opening with "what's interesting" and "I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact", Bush isn’t just teeing up information; he’s positioning himself as the plainspoken translator of economic reality, and positioning skeptics as out of the loop. It’s a soft reprimand dressed as a friendly clarification.

The list structure - "one... two..". - does rhetorical heavy lifting. It creates the feel of a straightforward proof, even though each claim contains wiggle room. "Most new jobs" is a familiar talking point that sounds decisive while glossing over nuance (which small businesses, in what sectors, during which cycle). The second point is more strategic: it shifts "small business taxes" away from corporate taxation and into individual income tax rates. That matters because it primes the listener to see cuts to top individual rates not as help for the wealthy, but as relief for job creators.

"Or many small businesses pay tax there" is the tell: a mid-sentence hedge that reveals the political need to simplify without fully committing to a quantifiable statement. Contextually, this is Bush defending a tax-cut agenda in an era when "ownership society" language tried to marry populist identity ("small business") to supply-side policy. The subtext: if you raise individual rates, you’re not taxing millionaires; you’re taxing Main Street - and by extension, threatening jobs. The brilliance is that it turns a distributional fight into a cultural one: who do you think you’re hurting?