Well, for one, I don't think the recovery rate of money thrown out of a plane will be too high.

> Both would help the economy the same, so you haven't made it clear why people with student loans helping the economy and no one else is the antidote we've been missing.

I'm not against distribution of money to make sure everyone has the means to live a survivable lifestyle.

We've actually been giving 'free money' to rich people for 20 years by this point, it's called quantitative easing, it gave us rising house prices and securities, and 97% of that money never made it into the real economy. So we can conclusively say that does not improve the economy.

Stands to reason the free money experiment should be tried on the opposite end of the scale.

I haven't read any studies done on the effect that this could have but if it was: 1) researched and 2) financially doable (results in net gain) then yes I would. If as a society we can find that doing X will improve the quality of life for all Americans for very little financial cost to us and only a long term positive impact, I don't see why anyone would say no to that?

> Many of the arguments you gave would also apply to credit cards, if not more (eg. 20+% APR compared to 7% for PLUS loans).

Just to note I have ~20k of loans @ 12.625% APR. 7% is what government backed loans are like. Not at all what a majority of private loans are like. Comparing credit card companies to private student loans is more fair.