"The Ambition Tax" -- a chilling Village Voice article on the price of being young (as in, 18-35) these days: crushing, lifelong debt. Between college costs, stagnant wages, consumer spending, and diminished employer benefits (i.e. paying for your own health insurance), this generation has to "pay off the equivalent of one full mortgage before they make it to flat broke." Gullllp. And why isn't this an issue in the Presidential election, this year's Battle of the Boomers, I wonder?