We have a tag us-federal-government with no description. Most of the questions with that tag seem that they should be tagged united-states instead, as that is the preferred tag for questions about the federal legal system of the United States.
Should us-federal-government be made a synonym of united-states, or is it important to distinguish them?
There are questions that are specific to U.S. federal law and federal government, and it makes sense to distinguish these from questions about law in the U.S., which could apply to states or multiple levels of government.
As of this post there were 22 questions tagged federal-law, and almost twice as many tagged us-federal-government. As a start, I just merged and synonymized the former tag with the latter.
I feel that us-federal-government should actually be 'burninated' - its trying to do something that would be better done with two separate tags: united-states and government.
It is not a synonym for united-states because there are many questions that fall that tag that have nothing to do with government.
On further reflection, I can see a need for a family of government tags - national-government, state-government and local-government.
