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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 20, 2013

Getting Knowledge Policy Right

In a knowledge economy, you have to get knowledge policy right. Too much is at stake.

June 13, 2013

Time to Stop the Wireless Tax Grab

The Wireless Tax Fairness Act, newly reintroduced this week, would put a five-year moratorium on any new state and local discriminatory wireless taxes.

June 11, 2013

Time to Stop the Wireless Tax Grab

The Wireless Tax Fairness Act, newly reintroduced this week, would put a five-year moratorium on any new state and local discriminatory wireless taxes.

June 10, 2013

Comments to the ITC in the Matter of Electronic Digital Media Devices

Urging the ITC to forbear from issuing further exclusion orders in this matter, in order to discourage the forum shopping that brought these cases to the ITC.

June 7, 2013

On Data Privacy, We've Been Here Before

If our elected officials, who are supposed to be guardians of our freedom first of all, grant expanded police powers to the federal government in violation of their oath to preserve and protect the Fourth Amendment, the Feds will use them.

May 31, 2013

Learning to Love the Sequester

IPI expert referenced: Tom Giovanetti

A new report suggests maybe all the uproar on Capitol Hill about the sequester was nothing but hype. IPI's Tom Giovanetti says any move Washington makes to actually slow down its wild spending is a good move.

May 23, 2013

Heavy-Handed Regulatory Solutions In Search of a Broadband Problem

With the U.S.’s obvious and compelling broadband success story, why do regulation advocates compulsively call for much heavier government regulation and control over the broadband industry?

May 22, 2013

In Corporate Taxation, You Reap What You Sow

Instead of engaging in easy demagoguery, Congress should modernize our tax code to reflect the reality of global competition, capital mobility, and the fact that U.S. companies today do the majority of their business overseas.

May 15, 2013

Trust the IRS With Your Personal Information?

With a large, powerful, intrusive government, your freedom is only as secure as the virtue of whatever mid-level functionary whose path you are so unfortunate as to cross.

May 9, 2013

Private Sector Experience Is a Plus, Not a Minus

Private sector experience should be considered a plus, indeed requisite, rather than treated as a contamination when it comes to appointed government offices.

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