Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a conservative, free-market public policy research organization based in Dallas, Texas.
In addition to his administrative duties, Tom writes for IPI and for leading publications on a variety of policy topics including taxes and economic growth, self-government and the Founders' design, civil liberties and constitutional protections, judicial supremacy, intellectual property, Social Security personal accounts, technology and Internet policy, and out-of-control government spending. In addition to being regularly published in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, FoxNews.com and The Dallas Morning News, Tom has a regular column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tom frequently appears in the media and is a fill-in host for the Mark Davis Show in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
Tom's passion is encouraging conservative voters and organizations to remain skeptical of Big Government, maintain faith in markets, and defend individual liberty as the best means of achieving human flourishing. His most recent work has focused on free-market solutions to the student debt issue, preserving freedom of speech online, and persuading state legislatures to override local and municipal policies that restrict economic liberty.
Mr. Giovanetti has represented IPI at many national and international organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) the World Health Organization (WHO) and represented IPI during trade agreement negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Mr. Giovanetti is a popular speaker and writer, and also testifies before state and federal legislative committees on a variety of topics.
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Innovation Is Working on the Railroad
Government regulators prize protecting their political constituencies above realizing all the benefits and gains to consumers that result from encouraging and implementing technology and innovation.
Coalition Letter Opposed to WTO Intellectual Property Vaccine Waiver
A coalition letter in opposition to the proposal before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to undermine intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines.
Conservatives, Liberals Warn About 5th Circuit Court Lifting Injunction Against Texas' Social Media Law
People who fall on all sides of the political spectrum are signaling concern over what implementing Texas’ social media law will look like practically.
We've Only Just Begun . . . to Spend
If you think inflation is bad now, wait until state and local governments and the feds start spending all of that appropriated money in the infrastructure bill.
So, You Think Texas Is a Free-market Paradise? Try Buying a Car Direct from Tesla
Republican Texas legislators have chosen the campaign dollars of big-money contributors over fidelity to their stated free-market principles. They’ve chosen favoring businesses over consumers.
Supreme Court Correctly Rules on . . . SALT Deduction
One of the reasons the SALT cap withstood the court challenge is because it’s actual legislation. It would be a grotesque overreach for the judicial branch to overturn a legitimate exercise of self-government through the legislative process.
At Many Texas GOP Events, Christians Pray in Jesus' Name. What Does That Say to Other Faiths?
The mission of the Texas GOP should be to win elections, and in an increasingly diverse and secular Texas, building a winning coalition means not “othering” people who want to be Republicans but who don’t share your Christian beliefs.
More Defense Spending, But How?
Most observers realize that the United States is going to have to increase its defense spending. But, with federal debt ballooning, interest rates rising and the return of inflation, we simply must set our fiscal house in order. We must be able to say “no” to more things so that we can “yes” to a stronger defense.