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Tom Giovanetti

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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.

Follow Tom on Twitter at @tgiovanetti

May 29, 2012

Why Taxing 'The Rich' Doesn't Work

IPI expert referenced: Tom Giovanetti

Fox Business columnist Gail Buckner interviews IPI president Tom Giovanetti on why "millionaire's taxes" don't increase revenues.

May 23, 2012

Capital Controls

Instead of dealing with the root cause, Senator Schumer is acting like a tyrant and attacking those who flee his oppression.

May 17, 2012

So Much for Courage

Once again, conservatives have attempted to eliminate a government program that creates economic distortions and puts taxpayers at risk; and once again the Washington establishment has cut their legs out from under them.

May 9, 2012

Taxman

Higher taxes on the wealthy and the productive don't deliver, and in fact lead to capital and talent flight, as France is about to find out.

May 2, 2012

What's Apple To Do?

It should NOT surprise us that innovative companies find ways to solve the problems created by our tax code.

April 18, 2012

Taxmageddon Cometh

On January 1, 2013, a dizzying array of tax cuts, deductions and exemptions are scheduled to expire. Estimates of the impact on a typical working class family range from between $1,750 and $3,800 in additional taxes next year alone.

April 11, 2012

The Exception That Does Not Prove the Buffett Rule

A closer examination suggests that Buffett and his secretary present an exceptional and perhaps questionable anecdote rather than a pattern.

March 21, 2012

Time for Ex-Im to Ex-it

The Export Import Bank is an example of moral hazard, and the law of unintended consequences.

March 14, 2012

Tax Competition is a Virtue

The United States should not to try to stifle international tax competition, but rather should get back in the game by lowering business tax rates and freeing U.S. businesses to compete internationally.

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