To the Editor:

So Lakewood Village President Erin Smith doesn’t think the RedTail golf bonds were a mistake (Northwest Herald, March 2).

She thinks raising taxes on every household in Lakewood by $200 to $300 a year so other people could live by a golf course was a good idea. She also spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to buy land at routes 176 and 47 so Lakewood can “control” development, like it’s the government’s job to risk taxpayer money in real estate development; it’s so much smarter than private enterprise.