When did a low tax rate equal “communism”?
China has a lower tax rate. So does Cuba.
The don’t have illegals sneaking into their country.
About 70% of Russian economy is state controlled. For the rest of it there is a mafia like protection system that functions like this: Russian laws make it impossible to run a profitable business without breaking some of them. Mafia Dons in Kremlin give selected people permission to break these laws. Everybody in business pays the protection money up the chain.
If you have read The Godfather then it pretty closely matches how the book described Sicily and has the same problems.