Why don't we pay food stamps and unemployment benefits indefinitely to stimulate the economy?
This question is asking why we do not change the policy to widen the effects that are seen.
We can only hypothesize what the answer would be. So are these types of questions on topic?
I do not think these are necessarily asking for opinions since you could in theory make a constructive fact based answer to this.
They should be on topic.
You can definitely make a constructive answer - there are economics projection studies done on those topics all the time.
Granted, some answers may be subjective, but that's what voting's for.
They should be off topic.
Despite the potential for a constructive answer they are more likely to spawn answers that result in commentary and opinion than objective and well referenced answers. Because it is hypothetical valid arguments can be made for using conjecture or assumptions that may not be valid, or accurate. For example with the question here there is an assumption that the improvement to the economy will be linear based on the amount of money put into the program.
Questions like this fall into the category of discussion topics, and are quite rarely concrete questions.
