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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

July 31, 2014

Public Policy Group Analyzes U.S. Corporate Inversions

Tax flight is a symptom of a larger problem: Tax rates that are out-of-line with other equally adequate locations.

July 31, 2014

Inverting the Inversion Discussion

It’s time to invert the discussion about inversions: It’s about a bad tax code, not bad companies.

July 23, 2014

Restoring Our Lost Liberty on the Internet

Updating the 28 year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) could protect the privacy of our electronic communications from the NSA, the IRS, and other federal agencies.

July 14, 2014

Letter to Senator Thune Regarding STELA

IPI recommends passage of a "clean" reauthorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA).

July 2, 2014

With Ex-Im, Congress Should be Pro-Market, not Pro-Business

Free market means opposing crony capitalism rather than defending it.

June 26, 2014

In Aereo, the Supreme Court Gets It Right

The Aereo decision is a victory for property rights and the rule of law, rather than the triumph of entrenched interests over disruptive innovation.

June 18, 2014

More Failed Votes Won't Fix America's Crony Sugar Market

IPI expert referenced: Tom Giovanetti

Unilateral disarmament in America is rightly a non-starter in Congress, and if it’s a free market that we really want, zero-for-zero is the most achievable path forward.

June 18, 2014

With Cantor Gone, GOP Would Be Wise To Let Ex-Im Expire

The most significant issue affected by Cantor’s loss is one that has become a symbol for the dispute between pro-business and pro-market conservatives, writes Tom Giovanetti in the Dallas Morning News. 

May 28, 2014

Seeking a Global Solution in Sugar Trade Policy

Achieving a reasonably free global market in sugar through trade agreements should be the goal of U.S. policy, rather than allowing otherwise competitive domestic producers to be driven out of business through the subsidies and dumping practices of countries like Mexico, India, Brazil and Thailand, whose sugar supports dwarf those of the United States.

May 23, 2014

Consumers not protected by Michigan's outdated law

An outrageous law on the books in Michigan restricts the ability of Michigan consumers to resell event tickets as they see fit, and that specifically makes it illegal to sell a ticket for above face value.

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