Are both [inequality] and [income-inequality] tags necessary?

Question

The excerpt for inequality reads:

Questions on economic, social, racial, gender and any other forms of political inequality, or political topics related to such inequalities.

While the excerpt for income-inequality reads:

Use for questions related to income-inequality and its causes, political effects, or potential solutions.

It appears to me that the "income inequality" of income-inequality may be no different than the "economic inequality" of inequality.

• inequality has 31 questions

• income-inequality has 24 questions

• Four questions use both tags

• Some questions with inequality and not income-inequality are about income (or wealth).

If there were a finer line to distinguish between the two tags, there are enough questions of each to keep separate tags; otherwise income-inequality could be made a synonym of inequality.

Are both inequality and income-inequality necessary or should they be merged? (Please include any suggestions for amending the tag excerpts, if separate tags are to be maintained.)

Answer 1

I'd say income-inequality should be merged into inequality. If someone wishes to specify that the type of inequality relates to wages then they can include the income tag as well. Before merging I suggest we go through the income-inequality questions to see if the income tag should be added.

That combination of inequality and income already happened a few times: here and here.