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Tom Giovanetti

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Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a 38-year-old conservative, free-market public policy “think tank” based in Dallas, Texas. 

In addition to his administrative and fundraising duties, Tom writes for IPI and for leading publications on a variety of policy topics including tax policy, economic growth, self-government, civil liberties and constitutional protections, judicial supremacy, intellectual property, Social Security personal accounts, technology and Internet policy, and 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 writes often for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tom frequently appears in the media and is a regular guest and occasional substitute host of the Mark Davis Show in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.  

Tom loves thinking out-of-the-box to design novel solutions to policy problems and explaining complicated policy issues in ways average folks can understand. 

Tom's mission at IPI is to use issues to teach conservative, free market thinking and to push back against unprincipled populism. He seeks to encourage continued skepticism of Big Government, to maintain faith in markets, and to defend individual liberty as the best means of achieving human flourishing. His most recent work has focused on free market solutions to student loan debt, preserving online freedom, and persuading state legislatures to override local and municipal rules 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), and represented IPI during negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
Mr. Giovanetti is a popular speaker and writer and testifies before state and federal legislative committees on a variety of topics. 

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March 7, 2018

Whose Crumbs?

Nancy Pelosi isn’t the only one who is out-of-touch and doesn’t understand economics.

April 5, 2018

A Do-Over on the Omnibus Spending Disaster?

Aggressive use of the Impoundment Control Act could restore some sanity to federal spending and create consensus toward revision of the filibuster rule.

March 21, 2018

Liquor Sales Ruling a Victory for Texans, Free Markets

In a victory for the Texas economy and consumers, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled against an anti-competitive state law barring publicly traded companies from owning package liquor stores.

March 21, 2018

Congress Should Not Give Facebook A Free Pass On Net Neutrality

Recent experience suggests that it is non-ISPs like Twitter and Facebook that are the real threat to openness.

March 14, 2018

Democrats Propose a Tax Hike

If Democratic leadership thinks the way to respond to the Republican tax cut is to argue for tax increases, they may be throwing Republicans just the lifeline they need for the midterm elections.

March 12, 2018

A Time to Choose On Net Neutrality

Democrats in Congress are working feverishly to restore the Obama rules by abusing a device called the “Congressional Review Act.”

February 26, 2018

Coalition Letter to Congress Regarding the Remote Transactions Parity Act

Coalition letter expressing opposition to H.R. 2193, the so-called “Remote Transactions Parity Act” (RTPA), which would grant states new power to tax and regulate internet sales made by businesses outside their borders.

February 16, 2018

Dallas Is Right to Wait to Regulate Bike Share

The city must resist the call for an enormous new investment of taxpayer dollars to facilitate these private entrepreneurial ventures.

February 15, 2018

Tax Cuts Are Empowering the American Worker

IPI expert referenced: Tom Giovanetti

Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act stands as the most sweeping and comprehensive tax reform in the past 30 years. Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, a public policy research organization, writes, “President Trump has already done more to grow the U.S. economy than the last four presidents and 28 years combined.” 

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