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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

June 28, 2016

The Tangled Politics of Trump's Speech Blasting "Globalization"

IPI expert referenced: Tom Giovanetti

"Dear GOP delegates: You cannot nominate someone who endorses these positions," Tom Giovanetti, the president of a free market think tank, tweeted, adding, "Trump would turn the Republican Party into the party of economic know-nothings."

June 24, 2016

Watching TV Through Apps

Why, in this Golden Age of programming, should we allow the FCC to force dramatic change upon the business models of programmers and homogenize their creative output?

June 22, 2016

EU Tax Grab Will Accelerate Loss of US Jobs and Investment

It is time to reform the corporate tax system to stave off the EU's global tax grab.

June 20, 2016

Only Congress Can Stop FCC's Sweeping Regulation of the Internet

The FCC’s regulation of the Internet must be viewed as being in direct contravention of Congress’ deregulatory intent, and as the biggest U.S. re-regulation in decades.

June 17, 2016

With FCC Set-Top Box Overreach, Time Is Now For Congress to Rein in Agency

The FCC's new set-top box regulations do not address any problem, but would create a whole new set of problems by redesigning the wildly dynamic and innovative video industry according to the whims of Chairman Tom Wheeler, and it's time for Congress to rein in the rogue agency.

June 15, 2016

Only Congress Can Stop FCC's Sweeping Regulation of the Internet

Only Congress can undo the FCC's broad assertion of power over the Internet and return to the light touch regulation that facilitated the Internet revolution in the first place. Congress should act.

June 9, 2016

Soda Taxes: Not About Health, Not About Sugar, Not Even About the Children

Philly soda tax expanded at the last minute to also cover diet drinks and to also pay for union contracts and pensions.

June 7, 2016

Coalition Letter in Opposition to Philadelphia's Proposed Soda Tax

These free-market advocates point out that good tax policy should be pro-growth, simple, and fair--Mayor Kenney’s proposed Grocery Tax is none of these things.

June 7, 2016

Is Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Really A Possibility?

IPI expert referenced: Tom Giovanetti

Is reform of our criminal justice system really possible given, the vast divide between Republicans and Democrats in Congress? One conservative joins me today to say "Yes!" and explains why.

June 2, 2016

Conservatives Should Celebrate Obama's Commutations

As people who prize liberty and individual rights, and who are skeptical about government power, conservatives need to do a rethink on criminal justice.

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