Keith David Barton v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• “If the specific protections of the first amendment do not afford a basis for refusing to pay tax, then neither can the more novel claims raised by appellant under the ninth amendment.”
• even if right to conscientious objections to war were protected by the Constitution, taxpayer could not validate his claim for tax credit proportionate to percentage of national budget expended for defense based on that right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).