Harry Reid wants to use the cap-and-trade tax revenue to fund health care, which makes one wonder: What happened to the energy rebates that President Obama promised to help mitigate the “skyrocketing” cost of electricity he promised from his energy policies?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is open to financing an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system with revenue generated from efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters yesterday Democrats are determined to finance the cost of any expansion of health care with savings found elsewhere in the government’s budget in order to avoid widening the federal deficit.
“I don’t think we should take anything off the table as to what we’re going to do with health care, what we’re going to do with this carbon that’s killing our country with global warming,” said Reid. “But the one thing that in our budget that’s very clear: We pay for everything.”

I think he means China pays for everything. We just have to pay them back.