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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Georgia Bill Stirs Fight Over Municipally Owned Networks
Georgia's House Bill 282 is reigniting controversies and conversation on whether states should limit municipal broadband networks.
Sequester Sanity
Embrace the sequester as the first meaningful restraint on federal spending in almost twenty years. In fact, let’s start planning the next one.
President Price Hike
Unlike typical government meddling in prices, President Obama’s policies always seem designed to make prices higher.
Who's Afraid of the Sequester?
Any politician who can’t stomach the sequester cuts—which aren’t nearly large enough to put us on a sustainable fiscal path—isn’t serious about restraining federal spending. Let the sequester happen.
Dodge 'farmer' ad wins pundit praise
If there was one ad that seemed to spark the greatest sense of Americana among some politicos, including IPI president Tom Giovanetti, it was Dodge’s commercial that used audio from the late conservative radio broadcaster Paul Harvey.
Comments to the FCC Urging Test Migrations from PSTN to IP-based Networks
IPI urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do its part to speed the transition from the legacy PSTN to IP-based networks by allowing test migrations in specific geographic areas, and by reforming several other archaic regulations.
From Throwing Pies to Eating Crow
Mark Lynas, leader of the movement against genetically modified crops, has embraced the technology and apologized for his misguided efforts.
Freezing Out the Deficit
A real, across-the-board federal spending freeze, exempting nothing, would balance the budget without tax increases and would equalize the sacrifice without pitting special interests against each other.
The Magic Coin
Using a legal loophole to violate the intent of Congress with a magic $1 trillion platinum coin would have far more dangerous results than anything resulting from the debt ceiling standoff.
Other Comments: The Folly of Flood Insurance; Election Quid Pro Quo; Solving Our Spending Problem
Over the past few years, Americans have cut back on their lifestyles by far more than 1%, writes Tom Giovanetti, as quoted in Forbes. It will be hard to demagogue successfully against a 1% reduction in government spending.
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