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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 20, 2020

California Wants to Tax Vapers Back to Cigarette Smoking

The last thing policy makers should do is implement policies that encourage a return to cigarettes, and that’s exactly what Newsom’s new vape tax would do.

May 19, 2020

Government Intervention Would Hurt Energy Producers

by Tom Giovanetti, Drew Johnson

If renewable energy firms hope to gain equal footing with oil and natural gas producers, they'll need to learn how to survive economic downturns without the government coming to the rescue.

May 15, 2020

Social Justice Requirements Could Politicize Investments in CARES Act

Having already entrusted the Fed with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to buy up corporate debt, Congress must insist that the debt purchases be made for exclusively economic reasons.

May 7, 2020

Luring Medical Manufacturing Home with the BEAT CHINA Act

The BEAT CHINA Act is a “two-fer”—a major move toward a more pro-growth tax code and a carrot rather than a stick approach toward bringing critical manufacturing home.

May 6, 2020

Coalition Letter Regarding Intellectual Property of COVID-19 Research

Coalition letter in opposition to lawmakers actions that would deny patents, exclusivity, and property rights to biomedical innovators working on vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, and cures for COVID-19.

April 15, 2020

The Least Eventful Tax Day in History

Could the Covid-19 virus be the crisis that forces the federal government to begin setting its house in order?

April 7, 2020

Coalition Letter Regarding the Proposed "Buy American" Mandate

If implemented, a Buy American mandate would disrupt existing supply chains, invite retaliatory actions from trading partners, and threaten timely access to medicines. In this current health crisis, such a mandate could even threaten our ability to adequately respond to the pandemic.

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