Tom Giovanetti

Property rights are the foundation of a market economy. If you don’t have clear property rights, no one can really enter into contracts to buy and sell anything. 

Coalition letter on behalf of taxpayer, free-market, and consumer advocacy organizations, asking lawmakers to prioritize and pass a number of tax relief measures this year that will aid in America’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kevin Brady can retire with the knowledge that he accomplished his number one policy goal: fundamental tax reform. 

The most shocking and counterproductive thing that could happen with this legislation is that by declaring private businesses to be part of the “public square” as a means of justifying speech regulation, or by redefining terms like “common carrier,” you will be unintentionally facilitating a dramatic increase in the government’s power to regulate private speech.

Increasing the reliance of the Highway Trust Fund on revenue streams untethered from use, as well as general fund bailouts, would not only fail to address the core fiscal challenges of the present, it would threaten the future health of America’s highways.

Testimony regarding HB 1505 that creates a system to fairly allocate the costs of replacing utility poles without making it unnecessarily costly to roll out broadband.

It’s time for Texas legislators to cut the video franchise fee. It is paid by Texas video customers and makes their bills higher than necessary. For 16 years Texas consumers have been footing the bill for a political payoff.

In FY2020, federal revenues were $3.42 trillion, but federal spending was $6.5 trillion. In other words, the federal government spent almost TWICE what it took in. That’s not sustainable.

The biggest problem with a federal minimum wage is that the cost of living varies widely from state-to-state, and between cities and rural areas.