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
Ted Cruz for President?
Just the thing we need to justify yet another reminder that IPI's 25th Anniversary Celebration dinner tomorow night features Senator Cruz as our keynote speaker.
How President Obama's 2013 Budget Affects Intellectual Property
It's instructive to see the impact of the Obama administration’s budget vision as to how it would affect the creative and innovative industries.
Two Charts On the Sequester
Here are a couple of charts that hopefully will provide some perspective on the relative insignificance of the sequester cuts.
Can You Find the Savage Sequester Cuts?
Chart demonstrates the almost insignificant impact of sequester spending cuts.
Texas is #1 Exporting State -- By a Mile
According to statistics from the Commerce Department, in 2012 Texas was the #1 exporting state in the country--and by a mile, too.
Two charts related to spending cuts
I had prepared two PowerPoint slides to help illustrate the points, but due to a miscommunication I wasn't able to slow the slides. So here they are.
Jon Stewart ridicules Krugman's magic coin
Good for Jon Stewart to see the insanity in Paul Krugman's $1 trillion magic coin idea.
Why Obama is Pushing Republicans Over the Fiscal Cliff
What if one side thought it had almost nothing to lose and much to gain, and the outcome of the election simply confirmed this calculation?
We have work to do
Our principles are not wrong, but we have clearly not sufficiently persuaded the American people how those principles directly benefit them in their daily lives.
The bureaucrats get BuckyBalls
The BuckyBalls saga is everything that is wrong with the Big Government nanny state in microcosm. And it's another example of the Obama administration putting a small business out of business.
So, I kinda predicted the release of the Benghazi emails
Not to brag too much, but I kinda predicted the release of the Benghazi emails.
Sweden's Tax War
IPI's Tom Giovanetti is quoted in Forbes magazine's "Other Comments" saying what government should be asking is: Would we rather have 22% of a thriving, growing business sector, or 35% of a moribund, struggling business sector?
Right. The Pirate Party should be admitted to WIPO. Right.
The Pirate Party tried to get accredited with WIPO as an NGO. Right.
What's wrong with innovators and creators having a day at WIPO?
Predictably, Mike Masnick over at TechDirt could be counted on to amplify and exaggerate this idea, calling it an "IP Maximalist Agenda Day," and asserting that for some reason public interest groups would be locked out of the event.
An Example of How Internet Piracy Harms Creators
Over at the Huffington Post (which I hate to link to), there is a good piece about how Internet piracy harms small, independent creators, in this case an independent movie producer.
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