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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FCC: Promises Kept Coalition Letter
Coalition letter thanking all five FCC Commissioners, Chairman Ajit Pai, Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner Brendan Carr, and Commissioner Geoffery Starks, and the entire FCC staff for their valuable work that should not be dismissed as “lost opportunities.”
But You Can Never Leave
In the example of California’s proposed exit tax, we are watching in real time the tendency of socialist policies to gradually move toward totalitarianism.
California's Attack on Gig Workers
California’s purpose in life seems to be to model bad policy for the benefit of the other 49 states. So we watch and learn from California’s mistakes.
The Taxing Ticket
In 2021 the economy will need pro-growth, not pro-government, policies to enable economic recovery. But the Biden/Harris ticket is promising the opposite.
A Better Way to Connect Low-Income Students to Broadband
If the goal is to ensure that low-income students have the digital tools needed to thrive during this school year, the city’s plan to build its own wireless network fails to come anywhere close to achieving it.
A Better Way to Bridge San Antonio's Digital Divide
In a city where broadband abounds, San Antonio’s choice to build its own wireless network in an attempt to close the digital divide is a very poor use of taxpayer funds.
Whatever Happened to Corporate Inversions?
If the Biden/Harris team wins the election and keeps its promises to raise corporate taxes, U.S. corporations could find themselves right back in the same old tax mess, and looking once again to escape
Coalition Letter Opposing President Donald Trump's Recent "Most Favored Nation" Executive Order
In a coalition letter the signers urge President Trump to apply the same successful, deregulatory, market-based approach that he has championed in other policy areas to health care.
An Interview with Shelby Steele
Rather Than Pour Trillions into Infrastructure Funding, the Feds Should Get Out of the Way of Private Investment
If we really do want America’s critical infrastructure maintained, modernized and continually expanded, instead of borrowing and spending trillions of dollars on a small portion of our overall infrastructure, the most important thing government at all levels could do is just get out of the way.
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