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.
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Political Earthquake in Texas (Audio: Interview)
Tom Giovanetti discusses with 660 AM – The Answer’s Mark Davis the political earthquake of House Speaker Joe Straus’s decision to not seek re-election. Giovanetti describes how, for years, Straus has been killing what the majority of voters in Texas have wanted to see for several legislative sessions, and in his absence are glimmers of hope for education savings accounts and school choice.
Stifling Free Speech on Campus Q&A with Charles Murray
IPI President Tom Giovanetti fields questions from the audience for Charles Murray at the Hatton Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series event.
Free Speech on Campus, Tax Reform & More (Audio: Interview)
In an interview with 660 AM - The Answer's Mark Davis, Tom Giovanetti discusses free speech on campus and the two keys of the GOP tax reform framework that would mean gangbusters for the economy. The conversation also dives into local control, education reform, and the 2018 midterm elections.
Key Tax Reform Elements That Would Jumpstart Economic Growth (Audio: Interview)
While not all tax cuts stimulate economic growth, the GOP tax reform framework embraces positive elements that would dramatically jumpstart the economy. In an interview with WAVA’s Don Kroah, Giovanetti discusses two key elements of the plan— the lowering of the corporate tax rate and immediate expensing.
GOP Tax Reform Plan Would Mean Gangbusters for the Economy (Audio: Interview)
In an interview with Genesis Communications Network’s Mike Siegel, Tom Giovanetti discusses the framework of the Trump-GOP tax reform proposal. Giovanetti explains how its pro-growth elements of cutting the corporate tax rate, expensing of business capital investments, AMT repeal and repatriation would stimulate economic growth for everyone’s benefit.
Laws Against Price Gouging Feed Fuel Frenzy (Audio: Interview)
As a panicked wave of fuel demand empties gas tanks, IPI president Tom Giovanetti joins 660 AM - The Answer's Mark Davis to discuss how well-meaning but nonetheless harmful laws against price-gouging amplify chaos in times of emergency and distort basic supply-and-demand.
Trump Tax Reform Pitch Resonates with Workers (Audio: Interview)
Tom Giovanetti discusses with WAVA's Don Kroah how President Trump has pulled off a feat no other president has accomplished since Ronald Reagan: successfully connecting business tax reform to personal economic opportunity in the minds of workers.
ECPA Modernization Brings Fourth Amendment Rights Into the 21st Century (Audio: Interview)
In an interview with KMED's Bill Meyer Show, IPI president Tom Giovanetti explains the ECPA Modernization Act of 2017, which fixes a glaring hole in the Fourth Amendment privacy protections Americans should enjoy on their electronic data.
Texas Legislature Special Session and Texting-While-Driving Ban (Audio: Interview)
In an interview with Mark Davis of 660 AM – The Answer, IPI president Tom Giovanetti offers his take on former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the U.S. Senate, the policy priorities for the Texas legislature’s special session, and Gov. Abbott’s signing of a controversial texting while driving ban.
No Better Time Than Now To Ax The CBO (Audio: Interview)
In an interview with WAVA's Don Kroah, Tom Giovanetti says while Republicans control Congress and the White House, they should be making strides toward structural changes that will last for decades, and the Congressional Budget Office is a prime candidate for the chopping block. “The CBO makes it very difficult for Congress to cut taxes, and it does a terrible job of estimates, but we’re stuck with them,” he said.
Giovanetti Scores Texas's 85th Legislature (Audio: Interview)
As the Texas legislative session begins wrapping up, Tom Giovanetti joins 660 AM – The Answer’s Mark Davis to give legislators a scorecard on how well they did advancing a free market agenda in the Lone Star State.
FCC Votes to Return to Light-Touch Internet Regulatory Approach (Audio: Internet)
Tom Giovanetti joins Genesis Communications Network's Mike Siegel to discuss the FCC's vote to reverse course on heavy-handed, Obama-era internet regulations and return to the pro-growth, light-touch regulatory approach that originally allowed the internet to wildly flourish.
Healthcare Reform, Omnibus, Title II Reversal & More (Audio: Interview)
Tom Giovanetti joins "America Can We Talk?" to discuss the FCC's upcoming rollback of the Obama-era's onerous Title II internet regulations, the Republican health care reform deal, and the recently passed omnibus spending bill.
Renegotiating NAFTA? (Audio: Interview)
On 660 AM- The Answer, IPI president Tom Giovanetti discusses with Mark Davis the willingness of President Trump to either renegotiate or ultimately pull out of NAFTA, and what surprising effects such a move would have on U.S. trade.
2017 World IP Day: IP and Trade--What Now?
IPI President Tom Giovanetti welcomes U.S. International Trade Commissioner F. Scott Kieff to IPI’s 2017 World Intellectual Property Day Celebration.
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