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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Giovanetti Reveals the Discriminatory Taxes on Wireless Service (Audio: Interview)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti tells WFLA's Preston Scott why governments slap so many taxes on wireless bills--because they can!
Time to Stop the Wireless Tax Grab (Audio: Interview)
Tom Giovanetti tells Baltimore's WCBM the Wireless Tax Fairness Act puts the brakes on new discriminatory wireless taxes.
Working to Restore American Liberty
Candid policy discussion with IPI expert, Merrill Matthews and IPI president, Tom Giovanetti at the 25th Anniversary Celebration: A New Frontier for Liberty.
IPI: Pushing Back Against Big Government and the Government Class
IPI President Tom Giovanetti's Address at the 25th Anniversary Celebration: A New Frontier for Liberty.
Tom Giovanetti on Mark Davis Show: Beware the Internet Sales Tax (Audio: Interview)
Giovanetti explains why the "Marketplace Fairness Act" is unfair taxation without representation.
Are there benefits to going over the fiscal cliff? (Audio: Interview)
IPI President Tom Giovanetti explains the ramifications of the impending fiscal cliff on KSKY's Mark Davis Show.
Has Government Created a Dependency Class? (Audio: Interview)
IPI president Tom Giovanetti says Americans are too dependent on the government on Wisconsin Public Radio's Joy Cardin Show.
Tom Giovanetti-- Romney's Right (Audio: Interview)
IPI president Tom Giovanetti joined KSKY's Mark Davis to explain why Mitt Romney's comments about 47% of Americans who don't pay taxes are spot-on, and how the government class has created a dependency class.
2012 Communications Summit: Next Generation Television--The End of Competition or Finally a Free Market?
2012 Communications Summit: Spectrum--Innovation, Distribution, Allocation...Revenue?
Tom Giovanetti on WBAPs Mark Davis Show
Listen to a candid conversation about the Republican debate and the upcoming Texas Senate primary.
The New Anti-IP Bolsheviks
Property protection has always been a hallmark of the conservative movement, and it’s critically important that intellectual property protection be one of our key policy priorities going forward into the future.
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